Who We Are

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. 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 10 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 $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

Our Team Members

We're a dynamic team of 400+ 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

We're seeking an Engineering Manager for Canada to establish Alpaca's engineering presence in the Canadian market from the ground up.



In the near term you will be very hands-on: architecting and building critical financial infrastructure yourself, hiring the first few engineers, and shaping the technical strategy for one of North America's largest and most sophisticated financial markets.

You will be the strategic technical leader for Canada operations. For the near term this is not a pure engineering management role: you will work with a small founding team, spend most of your time designing and writing production code, and stay close enough to the day-to-day work to make sound architectural calls. You will act as the key liaison between engineering and executive leadership, and work directly with finance, operations, product, legal, compliance, partners, and regulators (CIRO).

What you build here becomes the foundation for launching in Canada and for scaling to similar international markets. Success is measured by a working, compliant Canadian brokerage platform that partners can launch on, and an engineering organization that can run and grow it.

Location: Remote within Canada. Collaboration with APAC, Americas, and EMEA teams will occasionally require meetings outside regular working hours.

Things You Get To Do

Team building & leadership

- Hire and lead Canada's founding engineering team: standards, culture, and technical practices.



In the near term you work alongside a few engineers, in the code, rather than running several teams.
- Lead regional recruitment and build a diverse, high-performing team.
- Establish engineering best practices, code review standards, and technical decision-making frameworks suited to the Canadian market context.
- Foster Alpaca culture in the region while adapting practices to local market dynamics and regulatory requirements.
- Mentor those engineers directly and define clear ownership for the work you are building together.

Strategic technical leadership

- Set the technical strategy for Canada operations and align it with broader business objectives alongside senior leadership.
- Take complex technical projects through design and production yourself, holding the bar for scalability, reliability, and industry best practices.
- Introduce recent ideas and technologies in the systems you are building, and bring the founding team along as it grows.
- Contribute to company-wide policies and help establish Alpaca as a technical leader in the Canadian fintech ecosystem.

Technical architecture & implementation

- Design and build mission-critical financial systems for Canada yourself, including the Canadian Ledger, multi-currency transaction processing, regulatory reporting, and compliance systems.
- Write and ship the backend services where reliability, scalability, and regulatory compliance are paramount, and review the code the team produces.
- Own the key Canadian brokerage capabilities: localized infrastructure and ledger, account creation and KYC, funding and FX, settlement, corporate actions, compliance and regulatory reporting, trading, and reporting.
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📌 Engineering Manager, Canada (Toronto)
🏢 Alpaca
📍 Toronto