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 230+ 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.
We are seeking a Senior Payroll Specialist (Global) to own and operationalize payroll across a rapidly scaling international organization. This role will centralize payroll operations within Finance and support our continued global expansion, including growth to ~500 employees this year.
The ideal candidate is a hands-on payroll professional with strong international aptitude, comfortable navigating multiple tax jurisdictions, Employer of Record (EOR) structures, and Professional Employer Organization (PEO) relationships. This individual will play a key role in supporting potential transitions off the U.S. PEO model, improving payroll controls, and partnering on upcoming Human Resource Information System (HRIS) and ERP initiatives.
This is an operationally focused role with meaningful exposure to strategic projects and system implementations.
Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.