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Team Lead - Trading

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Thu, Aug 27, 2026
This job expires in: 26 days

Job Summary

Leading a team in the development of Alpaca's algo trading platform, the remote Team Lead - Trading will manage technical direction, oversee project delivery, and enhance team performance while actively contributing to coding and system design.

Key responsibilities
  • Define technical direction and architecture for the team's services, making critical trade-off decisions
  • Manage the roadmap and ensure predictable delivery of engineering work by breaking down business goals
  • Oversee day-to-day execution, including sprint planning and unblocking engineers to maintain workflow visibility
Required qualifications
  • Strong software engineering background at a senior or staff level with experience leading a team
  • Proven ability to mentor engineers and enhance team capabilities
  • Experience delivering complex systems on schedule, with skills in scoping and sequencing work
  • Proficiency in low and high-level programming languages such as C/C++, Go, Java, and Python
  • Knowledge of distributed systems, low latency optimization, and system design principles

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