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Overview
Join Alpaca as a Securities Finance Analyst to manage borrowed and lent securities, maximizing profitability while minimizing risk. Ideal for candidates with a background in finance and trading. 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 recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision. 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, totaling over 9 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.
What you'll do
- •Identify and execute borrow and loan opportunities across various asset classes (equities, fixed income, ETFs) using both manual and automated trading strategies.
- •Leverage SQL, AI tools to streamline daily tasks, develop analytical tools, and automate data-driven decisions, Go experience preferred.
- •Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams to optimize data pipelines, trading systems, operational efficiency and risk controls.
- •Monitor outstanding loans, recalls, and rates to optimize risk and profitability.
- •Build and maintain relationships with borrowers, lenders, custodians, and firm client partners.
- •Assess and manage counterparty, credit, and market risk while staying informed of market developments and regulatory changes.
- •Work with existing and new securities lending vendors on product development solutions.
- •Create automated workflow solutions for securities lending trading and operations.
- •Assist in infrastructure building and business development for tokenized equities financing.
Conditions
- •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.