Staff Frontend Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Who We Are:</strong></p> <p>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 <a href="https://alpaca.markets/blog/alpaca-raises-150-million-at-a-1-15b-valuation-to-build-the-global-standard-for-brokerage-infrastructure/">recent Series D funding round</a> brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of <strong>opening financial services to everyone on the planet</strong>. 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Our Team Members:</strong></p> <p>We're a dynamic team of 230+ 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!<br><br>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.</p></div><h3 data-start="363" data-end="381">About the Role</h3> <p data-start="383" data-end="703">As a Staff Frontend Engineer, you are a technical leader and strategist for **<span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline"><span class="whitespace-normal">Alpaca Markets</span></span>’ frontend ecosystem. Your impact goes far beyond a single team or feature set — you help define how frontend engineering works at Alpaca today and how it should evolve over the next several years.</p> <p data-start="705" data-end="885">This role is not about being the <em data-start="738" data-end="775">“best React developer in the room.”</em><br data-start="775" data-end="778">It’s about setting direction, simplifying complexity, and enabling many teams to move faster and safer.</p> <p data-start="887" data-end="1071">You will work closely with product, backend, platform, and design partners to shape architecture, standards, and long-term technical strategy across Alpaca’s frontend surface area.</p> <p data-start="1073" data-end="1416">We’re looking for someone who brings deep frontend expertise, enjoys mentoring others, and thrives in a culture of curiosity and continuous improvement. You’ll collaborate in a highly cross-functional environment, building elegant and seamless user experiences with a strong focus on polish, performance, responsiveness, and accessibility.</p> <h2 data-start="1423" data-end="1440">What You’ll Do</h2> <h3 data-start="1442" data-end="1479">Technical Strategy Architecture</h3> <ul data-start="1480" data-end="1989"> <li data-start="1480" data-end="1577"> <p style="line-height: 1;" data-start="1482" data-end="1577">Act as a long-term technical steward for Alpaca’s frontend architecture (2–5 year horizon).</p> </li> <li style="line-height: 1;" data-start="1578" data-end="1705"> <p data-start="1580" data-end="1705">Design and evolve scalable frontend patterns for data fetching, state management, performance, and runtime configuration.</p> </li> <li sty ... (truncated, view full listing at source)