Who We Are
: Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs.
This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 9 million brokerage accounts. Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet . We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.
Alpaca is proudly backed by top-tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator. Our Team Members: We're a dynamic team of 380+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond! We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth.
If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply. Your Role: This is an opportunity to join a Fintech firm specializing in many facets of the broker-dealer space, with a B2B clearing platform supporting a wide network of partner brokers and API-driven workflows. You will focus on ACATS and non-ACATS transfers, working as a key member of the Transfers team that handles incoming and outgoing account movements across our partner ecosystem.
We're looking for someone who brings deep operational expertise in account transfers, thrives in a fast-paced and ever-evolving regulatory environment, and is excited to help build out our transfers function as we transition to self-clearing. Working collaboratively with internal and external partners, you'll play a key role in delivering accurate, timely, and compliant transfer processing while shaping the procedures and controls that support business continuity. The team is 100% distributed and remote.
Who You Are (Must-Haves)
: 2+ years of ACATS experience, with hands-on industry portal usage and a strong understanding of the ACATS cycle, status progression, and industry timing
requirements
Working knowledge of NSCC / DTCC rules, FINRA Rule 11870, and standard vs.
