Alpaca is hiring a Senior Technical Recruiter in People (Remote - North America).
About the Company
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 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, 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.
Key Responsibilities
As a Senior Technical Recruiter, you'll own full-cycle recruiting for high-impact technical roles across Alpaca, primarily within Engineering. You'll partner closely with Engineering leaders to build hiring strategies, develop strong talent pipelines, and drive searches from kickoff through close.
You'll thrive in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple concurrent technical searches while maintaining strong stakeholder relationships, a high-quality candidate experience, and clear visibility into hiring progress and performance.
Things You'll Do
- Own full-cycle recruiting across a high volume of technical roles, from sourcing through offer and close.
- Partner closely with Engineering leaders and hiring managers to define profiles, develop hiring strategies, and drive searches forward.
- Build proactive technical talent pipelines through outbound sourcing, referrals, networking, and talent mapping.
- Manage competing priorities and a high req load while maintaining hiring quality and velocity.
- Provide clear reporting on pipeline health, funnel performance, hiring progress, and risks.
- Use recruiting data to identify gaps, improve conversion, and inform hiring decisions.
- Deliver a high-quality candidate experience through clear communication and efficient processes.
- AI and recruiting technology to improve sourcing, research, reporting, and recruiter productivity.
- Maintain strong ATS hygiene and help continuously improve recruiting processes and workflows.
Candidate Profile & Mindset
- 6+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with a strong track record of hiring software engineers and other technical talent.
- Proven ability to successfully manage a high volume of concurrent technical searches.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence, advise, and build credibility with Engineering leaders.
- Strong sourcing skills and a track record of building pipelines for difficult-to-fill technical roles.
- Experienced in using ATS reporting, funnel metrics, and recruiting data to communicate hiring performance and drive decisions.
- Skilled in using AI tools and modern recruiting technology to improve efficiency and recruiting outcomes.
- Strong communication, organization, and prioritization skills.
- Experience working in fast-paced, remote or distributed teams.
Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves)
- Background recruiting in fintech, trading, brokerage, crypto, or other highly technical environments.
- Experience hiring backend, infrastructure, platform, API, data, or distributed systems engineers.
- Exposure to recruiting across multiple global markets.
- Experience with Greenhouse or similar ATS platforms and recruiting dashboards.
How We Take Care of You
- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- Health Benefits
- New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
About Alpaca
Alpaca, founded in 2015 in San Mateo and Tokyo by Yoshi Yokokawa, offers API-first brokerage for stocks, ETFs and crypto, powering 1,000+ fintechs via Broker API and Trading API. FINRA and SEC registered, it handles fractional shares, shorting and 24/5 trading, processing billions in notional. In Web3, Alpaca enables crypto trading alongside equities for embedded apps. The culture is developer-centric, docs-first and focused on reliable market infrastructure. Alpaca provides developer-first API infrastructure for stock and crypto trading, enabling fintechs and Web3 apps worldwide to embed commission-free investing capabilities. Alpaca enables developers and global neobanks to build customizable trading experiences with multi-currency balance management and real-time execution.