Product Manager, Clearing Systems
AlpacaAPI Brokerage company
RemoteSenior
Drive Capital
Spark Capital
Tribe Capital
Horizons Ventures
Portage Ventures
Social Leverage
Product
About the role
TL;DR
Product Manager to own the clearing systems product lifecycle for a scaling broker-dealer.
- •{"about_the_role": "Alpaca is building the next generation of global brokerage and clearing infrastructure.
- •We are looking for a senior product manager who can own the clearing systems product lifecycle at a rapidly scaling self-clearing broker-dealer.", "key_responsibilities": ["Lead the design and buildout of Alpaca's core clearing infrastructure across brokerage, custody, ledger, asset movement, and global market expansion.", "Define the long-term architecture for Alpaca's clearing platform across accounts, positions, balances, ledgers, journals, settlements, stock record, and regulatory books and records.", "Design multi-currency cash and position systems that can support global equities, FX, fractional trading, options, bonds, Treasuries, fixed income, mutual funds, and other asset classes.", "Partner with engineering to prototype and build new clearing services rather than relying only on third-party service bureau workflows.", "Translate complex clearing, custody, and regulatory requirements into clear product and engineering requirements."], "requirements": ["5+ years in Product Management, technical program management, or engineering on brokerage, clearing, or post-trade infrastructure.", "10+ years of experience in brokerage, clearing, custody, prime brokerage, trading infrastructure, financial market infrastructure, or capital markets technology.", "Demonstrated depth on at least one clearing surface: settlement and stock record, books and records, corporate actions, margin, ACATS, DTCC processing.", "Highly technical.
- •Ability to work directly with engineers and product teams to turn complex domain requirements into scalable system designs.", "Comfort shipping in parallel with Compliance, Legal, and Operations in a regulated broker-dealer environment."]}
Required skills
Product ManagementMicroservicesAgileRoadmappingPRDsProduct StrategyFeature PrioritizationCustomer DiscoveryProduct AnalyticsCompetitive AnalysisProduct OperationsGrowth StrategyMonetization StrategyJobs to Be Done
Nice-to-have skills
LLMsAnthropic APIOpenAI APIGemini APILangChain
Domain expertise
fintechcrypto
Benefits & perks
Competitive Salary & Stock Options, Health Benefits, New Hire Home-Office Setup, Monthly Stipend
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptSQLBashNode.jsFastAPIMicroservicesDockerKubernetesCI/CDGitHub ActionsJenkinsArgoCDHelmGitLab CICircleCIAnsibleChefPuppetPrometheusGrafanaDatadogNew RelicPagerDutyNginxHAProxyGitLinuxJira
