Senior Product Manager - API

Overview

Who We Are
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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 has supported our ambition to open financial services to everyone. Alpaca serves hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with institutional-grade APIs, including broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totaling over 9 million brokerage accounts.

Our global team is diverse and includes engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals working to achieve our mission. We are committed to open-source contributions and maintaining a developer-friendly API and robust infrastructure. Alpaca is backed by investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator. Our team of 230+ distributed members spans the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond.

We encourage applications from those who share our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable.

Your Role
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As a Senior API Product Manager, you will own the roadmap and development of Alpaca’s core Broker, Trading, and Market Data APIs. You will be the voice of the developer, working to create a world-class, intuitive API experience that enables hundreds of businesses globally to build financial applications. You will collaborate with engineering, security, marketing, and business teams to define, build, and launch new API products and features that drive our mission forward.

• Define and own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Alpaca’s core APIs. Establish and enforce standards for authentication/authorization, error handling, rate limiting, versioning, and deprecation strategy.
• Serve as the primary owner and reviewer for all API changes, ensuring adherence to standards for quality, consistency, and performance.
• Become an expert on the needs of our developer community and institutional clients.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to design and launch highly scalable, reliable, and well-documented APIs. Lead technical discussions on concepts like idempotency and API architecture.
• Author PRDs, user stories, and API specifications (OpenAPI, Async
  
  API) to ensure clarity and alignment across teams.
• Work with marketing and developer relations on go-to-market strategies to drive API adoption and engagement. Own and review change logs and documentation.
• Define and analyze key metrics and SLOs to measure API product success and inform the roadmap.
• Act as the primary product evangelist for Alpaca’s APIs, internally and externally.

• At least 5 years of product management experience, with a focus on API products and developer platforms.
• Proven ability to understand complex technical concepts and work with engineering on architecture and design.
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design, experience with OpenAPI and Async
  
  API, and ability to write API documentation.
• Understanding of API usage patterns and asynchronous flows.
• Strong understanding of authentication/authorization (OAuth, API keys, etc.).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with experience leading cross-functional teams.
• Data-driven mindset with experience using analytics tools to track product performance and inform decisions.
• Passion for financial markets and building products that empower developers and democratize access to financial services.
• Experience working in an agile development environment.

• Background in engineering.
• Experience in fintech or brokerage industries.
• Experience with trading APIs for stocks, options, and crypto.
• Familiarity with gRPC, Web Sockets, and other API protocols.
• Experience contributing to or managing open-source projects.
• Experience working in a globally distributed, remote-first company.
• Knowledge of institutional trading workflows.

• Competitive salary and stock options
• Health benefits
• New hire home-office setup: one-time USD 500
• Monthly stipend: USD 150 per month via Brex Card

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