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Lead financial and regulatory operations for a self-clearing broker-dealer: supervise FOCUS reporting, monitor net capital, ensure SEC/FINRA compliance, maintain internal controls, oversee clearing/settlement and reconciliations, coordinate audits, and advise management on capital and risk.

The role involves managing the accounts product at Alpaca, focusing on KYC, identity verification, and API-driven account capabilities, collaborating with various teams to ensure compliance and partner adoption.

Manage daily crypto customer activity and trading operations, including executions, exceptions, account onboarding/KYC, cash management, and general ledger reconciliation. Support AML investigations, drive process improvements, communicate with partners, and handle ad-hoc projects within a distributed, remote team working core hours around 9am–5pm PT.

Embed with brokerage operations to observe and replace manual workflows with auditable automations and UIs. Design, build, deploy, monitor, and run production systems; instrument outcome metrics; collaborate with compliance, security, and domain experts; own full lifecycle including CI/CD, on-call, and incident response.

Operate and improve brokerage platform reliability: on-call incident response, define SLIs/SLOs, enhance observability, deploy infrastructure via GitOps, and own PostgreSQL performance, migrations, HA/DR, and mentoring.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable brokerage systems and middle/back-office services (gRPC microservices, React admin UI). Lead regional recruitment and reliability, mentor engineers, act as incident commander, collaborate with global teams, troubleshoot issues, and build solutions supporting multi-language/currency markets and regulatory requirements.

Provide high-quality trading support to enterprise clients: troubleshoot order entry, FIX sessions, execution and OMS issues; monitor trading activity and corporate actions; collaborate with trading desks, IT, and compliance; ensure regulatory compliance and risk mitigation; collect client feedback to improve services.

Manage the full sales cycle for Alpaca's Broker API across US fintechs, broker-dealers, RIAs, and banks. Prospect, qualify, demo, propose, negotiate, and close deals while collaborating with Solutions Engineering, Product, Integrations, and Legal. Maintain pipeline and forecasts in CRM and represent Alpaca at industry events.

As a Senior SDET, you will enhance testing practices, improve CI pipelines, mentor engineers, and ensure platform reliability through comprehensive testing strategies.