Technical Consultant - Europe
Technical Consultant - Europe
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Job Description
Who We Are:
Alpaca is a US California headquartered brokerage infrastructure technology company and selfclearing brokerdealer delivering and custody solutions for Stocks ETFs Options Cryptocurrencies and more and has raised over $170 million in funding. Amongst our subsidiaries Alpaca is a licensed financial services company in multiple countries and we serve hundreds of financial institutions globally such as brokerdealers investment advisors hedge funds and crypto exchanges.
Alpacas globally distributed team members bring in diverse experiences such as engineers traders and brokerage professionals to achieve our Mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We are also deeply committed to opensource contributions and fostering a vibrant community. We will continue to enhance and improve our awardwinning developerfriendly API and the infrastructure behind it.
Our Team Members:
Were a team of 150 globally distributed members who love working from our favorite places worldwide. Our team spans the USA Canada Japan Hungary Nigeria Brazil the United Kingdom and more!
Were looking for candidates eager to join Alpacas growing organization who are excited about our Mission of Open financial services to everyone on the planet and share our Values of Stay Curious Have Empathy and Be Accountable.
Your Role:
The Technology Consultant will operate as the technical expert interfacing with our enterprise customers around the world to help scope and support product integrations from conception to launch in the following ways
- Sales process : Driving product discovery to help formulate a product MVP as well as providing product demonstrations.
- Onboarding Integration : Supporting the integration project as the primary technical resource
- Post Integration: Providing any additional solutioning a partner needs completed such as implementing a new feature
Internally the Technology Consultant will be a key partner to many teams which includes but is not limited to Product Engineering Brokerage Operations Sales and Customer Success. Simply put the technology consultant is the voice of the customer internally at Alpaca.
As a technical resource in a highly collaborative role the ideal candidate will demonstrate a strong solution orientation as well as being an excellent communicator troubleshooter project manager and team player.
Things You Get To Do:
- Establish yourself as a subject matter expert of Alpacas API and collaborate with fintechs around the world
- Stay updated on internal product development timelines and work closely with the product team to test and roll out new features to partners
- Ensure feature requests or bugs reported by partners is communicated to the product and engineering teams and properly prioritized
- Support the sales and success team with technical advice and actively drive the technology evaluation stage of our prospective and current enterprise customers
- Attend weekly partners meetings for integrations alongside the project managers and asynchronously answer questions related to the product offering and provide solutions to unblock the partners
- Create internal and external resources that can be leveraged by both partners and internal teams
Who You Are (MustHaves):
- Enterpriselevel business project experience with strong process analysis design and documentation skills. Prior experience in a consulting role is a plus.
- Strong interpersonal skills with superior verbal and written communication skills for Englishspeaking clients to drive clarity on goals set expectations and collect feedback.
- Demonstrated problemsolving ability and attention to detail to deliver highquality output while meeting deadlines.
- Strong tech background:
- RDBMS experience (we use Postgres). Familiarity with metabase is a plus.
- Experience with modern APIs (REST Websockets Server Sent Events).
- Experience with enterprise software implementations.
- Strong technical troubleshooting skills. Experience with issue management (JIRA) and API logging tools.
- Familiarity with Postman and curl requests
- Flexibility to work with customers around the world
- Familiarity and interest in FinTech financial markets and investing applications. FinTech work experience is a plus especially with a brokerdealer business.
- Startup mindset.
Who You Might Be NicetoHaves):
- Sales and customer success background leading the customers experience through presales and postsales. Sales training / enablement experience is a plus.
- Programming experience (we use Golang).
- Experience with version control (we use git).
- Experience with FIX protocol is a plus.
- Familiarity with Readme OpenAPI yaml specification and documentation best practices.
How We Take Care of You:
- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- Benefits: Health benefits start on day 1. In the US this includes Medical Dental Vision. In Canada this includes supplemental health care. In Japan you are offered local benefits. Internationally this includes a stipend value to offset medical costs.
- New Hire HomeOffice Setup: Onetime USD $500
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
- Work with awesome hard working people super smart and cool clients and innovative partners from around the world
Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
Required Experience:
Contract
Employment Type
Full-Time
