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Responsibilities
- Lead the application architecture for safe autonomous agent execution from tool calls through trading systems.
- Design and build account-level policies, guardrails, and services that enforce rules on the path into trading systems.
- Define agent-initiated trading behavior with teams responsible for tools, skills, identity, and authorization.
- Maintain compatibility with MCP and connector, plugin, and skill standards and translate changes into policy and trading actions.
- Own production reliability for policy and guardrail services.
- Partner with Product, Compliance, and Risk to define and implement the control model.
- Review cross-team designs, guide technical decisions, mentor engineers, and improve design and implementation quality.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production backend systems.
- Demonstrated experience shipping autonomous execution that acts under explicit policy and rejects or stops actions outside that policy.
- Experience designing and implementing durable account-level application policies enforced on action paths with audited decisions.
- Sufficient MCP architecture knowledge to work with stateless and stateful behavior, plus production experience with MCP or connector, plugin, or skill standards.
- Ability to define unattended-action rules with Product, Compliance, and Risk partners.
- Proficiency in Python or TypeScript and willingness to work primarily in Go.
- Strong architectural judgment, experience shipping amid evolving requirements, and clear communication with technical and cross-functional partners.
- Preferred experience includes agent identity and authorization, OAuth, tokens, scopes, delegated access, developer-facing tools, SDKs, MCP servers, LangChain, financial markets, startups, or remote work.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and stock options.
- Health benefits.
- One-time USD $500 new-hire home-office setup payment.
- USD $150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card.
- Globally distributed work environment with teammates across multiple countries.
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About Alpaca
Alpaca builds brokerage infrastructure APIs and operates a self-clearing broker-dealer, enabling fintechs, institutions, and developers to embed trading in stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, and fixed income. Its platform includes account opening, clearing, custody, and compliance tooling, with revenue from brokerage and platform fees. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Alpaca serves clients in 40+ countries through its subsidiaries.