Alpaca
alpaca.markets
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Financial Software & Embedded Finance
Online Brokerage & Trading Platforms
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How Alpaca hires
Truth index
B 73/100
Median time to fill
61 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
89%
Reposted roles
0%
Alpaca scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 9 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 89% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 61 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Alpaca is a developer-first financial infrastructure, clearing, and brokerage API enterprise headquartered in San Mateo, California. Founded in 2015 by Yoshi Yokokawa and Hitoshi Harada, the company has raised over $320 million in venture funding - including a $150 million Series D at a $1.15 billion valuation led by Drive Capital, alongside Citadel Securities, Portage, and Horizons Ventures.
News
Alpaca aims at least tenfold India-Linked AUC growth next year
US-based Alpaca anticipates a tenfold surge in India-linked assets under custody within 12 months, driven by upcoming partner launches through GIFT City.
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Alpaca eyes 10x growth in India assets as GIFT City partners near launch
Yokokawa said Alpaca's global AUC has been more than doubling year on year, while India AUC could expand
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Alpaca Partners with Indonesia Stock Exchange to Enable Cross-Border Market Access via PALN
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Kalshi partners with brokerage Alpaca as it tries to build its international audience
The prediction market platform and the financial infrastructure and brokerage startup are working to get Kalshi's event contracts to global investors.
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Alpaca Registers Own FCM but Prediction Markets Not Live
Alpaca Derivatives is now a CFTC-registered FCM and NFA member, but no exchange partner, clearing model or launch date has been named for event contracts.
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Alpaca Registers as Futures Commission Merchant with the CFTC and NFA to Advance Launch of Prediction Markets
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Gate Partners with Alpaca to Support Their Expansion Into U.S. Stocks and ETFs, IPO Access, and Tokenized Stocks
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Alpaca over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
108
Postings analysed
78
Stack modernity
83/100AI adopter
Languages
Go53%
SQL37%
Python29%
C++18%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js8%
Commander.js5%
LangChain1%
LangGraph1%
Databases
PostgreSQL29%
Trino6%
Apache Iceberg5%
Presto5%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes49%
GCP40%
Spark29%
Grafana19%
AI & ML
LLM6%
Claude6%
ChatGPT5%
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Full Alpaca tech stack
108 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Growth
Hiring Momentum
77/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
64
18 opened / 12 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
62 days
faster than 21% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
31%
Product
14% ▲
Operations
8%
Data Science
7%
Finance
5%
Management
5%
Actively hiring for Backend (+12 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Canada
Oct 2026
New location: United Kingdom
Oct 2026
New location: India
Oct 2026
New location: United States
Oct 2026
Added Service Desk to stack
Oct 2026
Added Jira to stack
Oct 2026
Added LLM Evaluation to stack
Oct 2026
New location: Japan
Sep 2026
Added ITIL to stack
Sep 2026
Added SIEM to stack
Sep 2026
Added DLP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
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5
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Countries
4
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San Mateo
United States
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Alpaca Markets
Tokyo
Japan
Regional office
Onsite - Tokyo, Japan
Singapore
Singapore
Regional office
Remote - Singapore
Budapest
Hungary
Regional office
Remote - Hungary
Mena
United States
Regional office
Remote - MENA
Jobs
Equity • Remote (LATAM, North America) • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
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Azure
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≈ $104k – $307k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (Europe, North America) • 5+ years exp
Go
Java
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
Apache Kafka
Redpanda
DevOps
Rest API
gRPC
Helm
Prometheus
Kubernetes
Grafana
Cybersecurity
Keycloak
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≈ $136k – $301k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (AMER) • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
AI Agents
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≈ $123k – $316k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (EU, Europe, North America)
Go
PostgreSQL
Apache Kafka
Redpanda
AI/ML
LLM
DevOps
gRPC
Helm
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
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≈ $182k – $386k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (Europe, North America) • 8+ years exp
Go
JavaScript
Java
Rust
Kotlin
TypeScript
C#
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Rest API
gRPC
WebSockets
Kubernetes
Cybersecurity
Keycloak
Auth0
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≈ $89k – $148k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (United Kingdom) • 5+ years exp • United Kingdom
Agile
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≈ $157k – $348k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (AMER) • 6+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Tokenization
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≈ $112k – $287k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (North America) • 6+ years exp
Python
SQL
Spark
LLM
LLM Evaluation
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≈ $110k – $214k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (location not specified) • 6+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
SQL
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≈ $88k – $166k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (United Kingdom) • United Kingdom
Go
JavaScript
Node JS
Commander.js
AI/ML
Cursor
Claude Code
OpenAI Codex
DevOps
gRPC
Management
Slack
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≈ $85k – $233k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (North America, South America) • 4+ years exp
Python
SQL
Apache Iceberg
Presto
Apache Kafka
Trino
Redpanda
AI/ML
Spark
Airflow
dbt
AI Agents
DevOps
Terraform
Ansible
GCP
Helm
Azure
ArgoCD
AWS
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Analytics
Looker
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≈ $137k – $291k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (Europe) • 7+ years exp
Go
PostgreSQL
DevOps
GCP
Kubernetes
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