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Alpaca

API-first stock and crypto brokerage platform

Y CombinatorWinter 2019ActiveFintechBanking and ExchangeDeveloper ToolsFintechAPIInvesting

What they do

Problem

Companies and developers need a compliant, scalable way to offer stock and crypto investing to their customers without building brokerage infrastructure from scratch.

Solution

Alpaca provides an API-first, licensed brokerage platform and infrastructure for embedding stock and crypto trading and investing into applications.

Who it's for

Developers and businesses building consumer or enterprise apps that want to add embedded investing and trading features.

Founders

Yoshi Yokokawa
Co-founder & CEO

Yoshi is a co-founder & CEO of @AlpacaHQ alpaca.markets. Before Alpaca, he led a couple of other tech startups that focused on deep-learning and enterprise businesses. Before startups, he was a VP in securitized products at Lehman and Nomura followed by being a full-time day-trader.

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Hitoshi Harada
Founder/CTO
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Open roles 5

Senior Software Engineer - Clearing & Securities Finance
Remote (US) · Full-time · $90K - $180K
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Senior/Staff+ Software Engineer - Ledger Team
Remote (US) · Full-time · $100K - $180K
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Senior or Staff+ Software Engineer - Identity
CA / US / HU / AR / MX / BR / DE / ES / Remote (CA; US; HU; AR; MX; BR; DE; ES) · Full-time · $100K - $170K
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Senior or Staff+ Software Engineer - Trading
Global - Remote Anywhere / Remote (US) · Full-time · $120K - $200K
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Senior Analytics Engineer
CA / HU / US / JP / BR / Remote (CA; HU; US; JP; BR) · Full-time · $90 - $110
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