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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 20 days Alpaca 's roles stay open a median of 43 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Alpaca 's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Alpaca
- high 27 stale, 1 reposted of 60 open
- Hiring momentum
- 100 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Alpaca 's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Alpaca .
About this role
As a Team Lead at Alpaca, you will guide the development of the algo trading platform, ensuring high quality and performance for users. This hands-on leadership role involves coding, making technical decisions, and managing the team's roadmap and delivery. You will also mentor engineers, oversee production systems, and collaborate across teams to meet business goals.
- benefits
- 2/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Alpaca as an employer.
What you need
- Strong, experienced software engineer at a senior or staff level who has led a team, formally or as a tech lead
- Demonstrated ability to grow engineers: mentoring, feedback, and raising the level of people around you
- Track record of delivering complex systems on schedule, including scoping, sequencing and cutting the right things
- Coding skills in both low and high level languages around C/C++, Go, Zig, Rust, Java, Scala, Python
- Low latency and high throughput optimization
- Experience with messaging queues and message brokers
Nice to have
- Experience hiring and building out an engineering team from a small base
- Experience owning a production trading or brokerage system as the accountable lead
- Algo trading experience (either professional or personal)
- FIX protocol knowledge
- Experience with observability, tracing, continuous profiling and benchmarking
What you get
- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- Health Benefits
- New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- Role requires a strong technical background in both frontend and backend development
- Expectations for hands-on coding and technical decision-making may not suit those seeking pure management roles
- Experience with trading systems is mandatory, which may limit candidates without this background
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Listed by Alpaca on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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