Brokerage Client Service Associate

Alpaca · Posted 1w ago

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APAC

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Full-time

Posted

1w ago

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 an opportunity to join a Fintech firm specializing in many facets of the broker-dealer space, with a B2B clearing platform supporting a wide network of partner brokers and API-driven workflows.

Things You Get To Do:

Assist clients and broker partners by being the first point of contact on service needs and issues
Handle a diverse range of brokerage questions spanning multiple business functions, including account services, trading, transfers, funding, and operations.
Submit and process certain operational requests as instructed by the brokerage team and/or client/broker partners. Examples include order entry, account maintenance, fund distributions, cash and stock journals, and other operational processing tasks.
Interact with several internal groups to resolve client issues. This can include the trading desk, brokerage operations, sales team, solutions team, customer success team, engineering, and product teams.
Assist customers with basic technical requests, including API usage questions, platform navigation, workflow guidance, and troubleshooting support.
Support ad hoc projects and operational initiatives as assigned by management

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

Excited about Alpaca’s mission and what we’re building
One to two years of experience in the securities industry.
FINRA Series 7 license or ability to obtain within the first 6 months of employment start date
Strong attention to detail, accuracy, and reliability with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
Must have strong written and communication skills
Experience with FINRA, Federal, and SEC regulations
Basic understanding of KYC and client onboarding processes
Ability to collaborate and work effectively in a remote team environment
Enjoys challenges and taking ownership of new responsibilities