# Alpaca

Alpaca is a financial technology company that provides developer-first APIs and brokerage infrastructure for programmatic access to stock, options, and cryptocurrency markets, enabling businesses and individual traders to integrate trading and investing capabilities into their applications. Its platform offers REST, WebSocket, and event-driven interfaces that support algorithmic trading, automated strategy execution, real-time market data, backtesting, and portfolio management workflows.

**Headquarters:** San Mateo, CA, USA
**Founded:** 2015
**Employees:** ~150
**Founder:** Hitoshi Harada, Yoshi Yokokawa
**Website:** https://alpaca.markets/
**Careers page:** https://www.workatastartup.com/companies/alpaca
**Focus areas:** FinTech, Fintech, Financial Services, Developer APIs, Financial Technology and Services, Banking and Exchange, Investing, API, Developer Tools, Trading Platform, Infrastructure, Cryptocurrency
**Open positions:** 5

[View all jobs at Alpaca](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-companies/alpaca)

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## Open Positions (5)

- [Senior Software Engineer - Clearing & Securities Finance](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/alpaca/senior-software-engineer-clearing-securities-finance-63278) -- Remote (US) (Remote/Hybrid) | Full Time
- [Senior or Staff+ Software Engineer - Identity](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/alpaca/senior-or-staff-software-engineer-identity-67895) -- CA / US / HU / AR / MX / BR / DE / ES / Remote (CA; US; HU; AR; MX; BR; DE; ES) (Remote/Hybrid) | Full Time
- [Senior Analytics Engineer](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/alpaca/senior-analytics-engineer-68870) -- CA / HU / US / JP / BR / Remote (CA; HU; US; JP; BR) (Remote/Hybrid) | Full Time
- [Senior or Staff+ Software Engineer - Trading](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/alpaca/senior-or-staff-software-engineer-trading-67897) -- Global - Remote Anywhere / Remote (US) (Remote/Hybrid) | Full Time
- [Senior/Staff+ Software Engineer - Ledger Team](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/alpaca/senior-staff-software-engineer-ledger-team-67894) -- Remote (US) (Remote/Hybrid) | Full Time

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