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Staff Analytics Engineer

Alpaca
staff
Work Type

Remote

Open to applicants in

Hungary, United Kingdom

Seniority

staff

Posted

September 24, 2026


Expected Salary
$100k+
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Job Description

Who We Are:

Alpaca is a US-headquartered global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks ETFs options crypto fixed income 24/5 trading and more.

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 10 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 $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures Spark Capital Tribe Capital Social Leverage Horizons Ventures Opera Tech Ventures SBI Group Derayah Financial Unbound Peak XV Elefund and Y Combinator.

Our Team Members:

We're a dynamic team of 400+ 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.

About the Role:

We are seeking an Analytics Engineer to own and execute the vision for our data transformation layer.

You will be at the heart of our data platform which processes hundreds of millions of events daily from a wide array of sources including transactional databases API logs CRMs payment systems and marketing platforms.

You will join our 100% remote team and work closely with Data Engineers (who manage data ingestion) and Data Scientists and Business Users (who consume your data models).

Your primary responsibility will be to use dbt and Trino on our GCP-based open-source data infrastructure to build robust scalable data models.

These models are critical for stakeholders across the company—from finance and operations to the executive team—and are delivered via BI tools reports and reverse ETL systems.

What You'll Do:

  • Own the Transformation Layer: Design build and maintain scalable data models using dbt and SQL to support diverse business needs from monthly financial reporting to near-real-time operational metrics.
  • Set Technical Standards: Establish and enforce best practices for data modelling development testing and monitoring to ensure data quality integrity (up to cent-level precision) and discoverability.
  • Enable Stakeholders: Collaborate directly with finance operations customer success and marketing teams to understand their requirements and deliver reliable data products.
  • Integrate and Deliver: Create repeatable patterns for integrating our data models with BI tools and reverse ETL processes enabling consistent metric reporting across the business.
  • Ensure Quality: Champion high standards for development including robust change management source control code reviews and data monitoring as our products and data evolve.

What You Need (Must-Haves):

  • 4+ years of experience in analytics engineering or data engineering with a strong focus on the "T" (transformation) in ELT.
  • Proven track record of owning data products end-to-end applying analytics and data engineering best practices to ensure data quality scalability and robust data models. 
  • Comfortable working with ambiguity and collaborating with stakeholders to define requirements; able to take ownership with minimal oversight in a fast-paced environment. 
  • Experience proactively identifying and implementing improvements to data warehouse performance and ETL efficiency. 
  • Technical Versatility:
    • Expert-level SQL and DBT skills for complex queries and data transformations. 
    • Proficiency in Python for transformations that extend beyond SQL.
    • Hands-on experience with query optimization across OLTP and OLAP systems (e.g.

      Postgres Iceberg).

    • Proficiency with Semantic Layer modelling (e.g.

      Cube dbt Semantic Layer).

    • Experience owning CI/CD workflows and establishing team-wide standards for version control and code review (e.g.

      Git). 

    • Familiarity with cloud environments (GCP or AWS).

Nice to Haves:

  • Experience with data ingestion tools (e.g.

    Airbyte) and orchestration tools (e.g.

    Airflow).

  • Domain experience for brokerage operations or a passion for financial markets and modelling financial datasets.

How We Take Care of You:

  • Competitive Salary & Stock Options
  • Health Benefits
  • New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
  • Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card

Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.

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