[Hiring] Trade Surveillance Analyst @Alpaca

Role Description

Alpaca is seeking a Trade Surveillance Analyst to join the Financial Crimes Department and support the firm’s market-integrity, financial-crime, and compliance surveillance program. This role will be responsible for:

• Monitoring trading activity
• Reviewing alerts
• Investigating suspicious or potentially manipulative trading behavior
• Escalating matters that may involve market abuse, fraud, insider trading, wash trading, spoofing, layering, front-running, information-barrier concerns, or other suspicious trading patterns

The analyst will use Surveyor by Trillium and Alpaca’s internal systems to:

• Conduct near real-time and post-trade reviews
• Identify anomalies
• Document investigative findings
• Support internal escalations, regulatory inquiries, and matters that may require suspicious-activity reporting

This role combines strong investigative judgment, trade-surveillance expertise, AML & Fraud awareness, and the ability to operate in a fast-paced, technology-driven trading environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Fintech trade surveillance, AML investigations, transaction monitoring, financial-crime compliance, brokerage compliance, market surveillance, risk, investigations, or a related control function
• Experience working at a broker-dealer, fintech, trading platform, exchange, introducing broker, clearing firm, market maker, proprietary trading firm, crypto trading or other regulated financial institution
• Strong understanding of trading activity, order behavior, market structure, customer activity, and potential indicators of market manipulation or suspicious activity
• Familiarity with market-abuse typologies, including spoofing, layering, wash trading, front-running, insider trading, unusual price or volume activity, and manipulative order behavior
• Ability to review trading data, identify behavioral patterns, investigate exceptions, and form well-supported conclusions
• Experience documenting investigations in a clear, concise, and audit-ready manner
• Strong analytical skills, sound judgment, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize multiple reviews or investigations
• High integrity, discretion, and ability to handle confidential information appropriately
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex trading activity to AML, Compliance, Legal, Risk, Technology, and business stakeholders
• Ability to work independently while collaborating across teams in a fast-paced environment
• FINRA Series 7 license

Requirements

• Experience using Surveyor by Trillium for trade surveillance, alert review, investigation, or escalation workflows
• FINRA Series 24

Benefits

• 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