Alpaca
FinTech
AcquisitionEngineeringTeamLead
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“Acquisition Engineering Team Lead at Alpaca. Skills: Frontend Architecture, Team Leadership, Web Acquisition, Content Management. Manage and support engineers. Act as technical lead”
What You'll Achieve.
Improve conversion; Improve content operations; Improve regional delivery; Reduce friction; Improve conversion
Industry & Context.
Reduce friction; Improve conversion
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years frontend experience, TypeScript and React experience, Directly managing engineers, Experience hiring engineers, Experience owning web acquisition surfaces, Experience with analytics and funnel measurement, Experience with headless CMS platforms, Experience supporting multi-region web experiences, Frontend architecture best practices, Performance, accessibility, SEO best practices, Experience working with Design teams, Experience with design systems, Solid REST APIs experience, Excellent communication skills, Cross-functional collaboration skills, Sense of ownership, Accountability for systems, Leading complex initiatives, Improving team efficiency, Improving delivery workflows, Improving internal tooling, Pragmatic build-vs-buy decisions
Nice to Have
Experience in regulated industries, Experience representing company at hackathons, Experience with Next.js, Familiarity with geo-gating, Familiarity with feature flags, Experience integrating third-party tools, Experience with globally distributed teams, Experience with remote-first teams, Experience supporting regional legal requirements, Experience supporting regional privacy requirements
What You'll Do.
Manage and support engineers
Act as technical lead
Own engineering side of acquisition
Own website experience
Build analytics and instrumentation
Improve observability
Collaborate with Marketing
Collaborate with Compliance
Collaborate with Legal
Collaborate with Product
Collaborate with Branding
Design headless CMS architecture
Maintain headless CMS architecture
Build CMS-driven frontend applications
Define content models
Evolve content models
Implement publishing workflows
Improve tooling and workflows
Connect design and content
Connect content and implementation
Implement shared design system
Scale shared design system
Shape content generation
Maintain performance standards
Maintain accessibility standards
Maintain SEO standards
Maintain visual quality standards
Evaluate funnel performance
Guide product improvements
Guide UX improvements
Collaborate on API design
Mentor other engineers
Influence frontend best practices
Influence web platform best practices
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional collaboration; Work across Engineering; Work across Design; Work across Marketing; Work across Compliance; Work across Legal; Work with Product; Work with Branding; Work with backend engineers
Communication Scope
Cross-functional collaboration
Process & Methodology
Prioritization
Full Job Description
Who We Are: 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, totalling 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. Alpaca is proudly backed by top-tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator. Our Team Members: We're a dynamic team of 380+ 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. Your Role: This is a Team Lead role for a technically strong engineer who balances hands-on engineering with team management responsibilities. This person will lead the systems, tooling, and frontend architecture that power marketing funnels, landing pages, and regional web experiences. You will own the engineering s
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