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StoneX Group

Equity Sales Trader

New York, NY

$100K - $120K/yr

With 4,300 employees and over 400,000 retail and institutional clients from more than 80 offices ... Whether you want to forge a career connecting our retail clients to potential trading opportunities ...

BBVA

IG Flow Credit Trader

New York, NY · On-site

$100K - $110K/yr

Partner with institutional sales to provide timely market color, trade ideas, and execution support for clients. * Build and maintain strong relationships with asset managers, insurance companies ...

StoneX

Equity Sales Trader

Manhattan, NY

$100K - $120K/yr

With 4,300 employees and over 400,000 retail and institutional clients from more than 80 offices ... Whether you want to forge a career connecting our retail clients to potential trading opportunities ...

UNAVAILABLE

Equity Sales Trader

Manhattan, NY · On-site

$100 - $120/hr

With 4,300 employees and over 400,000 retail and institutional clients from more than 80 offices ... Whether you want to forge a career connecting our retail clients to potential trading opportunities ...

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Citigroup, Inc.

Agency MBS Trader - VP

New York, NY · On-site

$175K - $250K/yr

Institutional Trading Job Family: Trading Time Type: Primary Location: New York New York United States Primary Location Full Time Salary Range: $175,000.00 - $250,000.00 In addition to salary, Citi ...

Alpaca

Director of Engineering, Trading

Design and deliver institutional trading capabilities, including but not limited to: * Drive ... architectural decisions across trading APIs, our proprietary order management system, real-time ...

Stonex Group, Inc.

Equity Sales Trader

Manhattan, NY · On-site

$100K - $120K/yr

With 4,300 employees and over 400,000 retail and institutional clients from more than 80 offices ... Whether you want to forge a career connecting our retail clients to potential trading opportunities ...

Hyphen Connect Limited

You will play a critical role in managing the delivery of institutional trading dashboards for the web3 institutional platform. Your expertise will bridge project management and design, ensuring a ...

ATLAS SP

Securitized Products Sales - Trader

New York, NY

$200K - $300K/yr

The successful candidate will leverage deep institutional relationships and Atlas partnerships to ... Primary Responsibilities Trading & Market Intelligence Provide clients with market color, relative ...

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How much do institutional trader jobs pay per year?

As of Aug 8, 2026, the average yearly pay for institutional trader in the United States is $96,774.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $56,500.00 and $105,500.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as an institutional trader?

To thrive as an Institutional Trader, you need a solid background in financial markets, quantitative analysis, and a relevant degree such as finance, economics, or mathematics. Expertise with trading platforms (such as Bloomberg Terminal or Reuters Eikon), order management systems, and certifications like the Series 7 or CFA are often required. Exceptional decision-making, stress management, and communication skills are valuable for successful collaboration and performance under pressure. These abilities are crucial for executing large-volume trades, minimizing risk, and achieving institutional investment goals in a fast-paced environment.

What does a typical day look like for an institutional trader?

A typical day for an Institutional Trader involves monitoring global markets, analyzing financial news, and executing large-scale trades for institutional clients such as banks, hedge funds, or pension funds. The role requires continual communication with portfolio managers, analysts, and other traders to coordinate strategies and ensure the best execution of trades. Institutional Traders often start early to catch market openings and may need to adjust positions based on market movements throughout the day. The environment is fast-paced and requires constant attention to detail, with teamwork and quick decision-making playing a key role in daily success.

What does an institutional trader do?

An Institutional Trader executes large-volume trades on behalf of financial institutions such as investment firms, hedge funds, banks, and mutual funds. They analyze market trends, manage risks, and make strategic buy and sell decisions to maximize profits or meet client objectives. Institutional Traders often use advanced trading algorithms and execution strategies to minimize market impact. Their role requires strong analytical skills, deep market knowledge, and the ability to make quick decisions under pressure.

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Infographic showing various Institutional Trader job openings in the United States as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 100% Full Time. Highlights an 92% In-person, and 8% Hybrid job distribution, with an average salary of $96,774 per year, or $46.5 per hour.

Director of Engineering, Trading

Alpaca

New York, NY

Full-time

Re-posted 10 days ago

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.

Your Role:

Alpaca is building the next-generation market infrastructure that powers the most sophisticated institutional use cases and expands its API-driven platform to support complex, high-performance "agentic" trading strategies. This strategic expansion ensures a robust and reliable foundation for all active traders, while tailoring our industry-leading brokerage platform to meet the demanding needs of institutional investors.

Reporting to the CPO/CTO/OCTO [TBD], you will build and scale a focused engineering organization responsible for institutional trading capabilities across multiple asset classes. You will work closely with the Global Head of Brokerage and other senior leaders to evolve Alpaca's platform toward a multi-asset, cross-margining offering spanning FX, futures, and other derivatives alongside existing equities and options.

This role is designed for a Director-level engineering leader who can extend a proven brokerage platform into a new institutional tier through strong architectural judgment, execution discipline, and team leadership.

Things You Get To Do:

  • Define and own and execute the engineering roadmap for Alpaca's institutional trading platform
  • Build, lead, and scale a high-performing team of engineers with a strong culture of ownership and execution
  • Partner with the Office of the CTO and Global Head of Brokerage to align engineering priorities with institutional and prime brokerage strategy
  • Lead the evolution toward a multi-asset trading architecture supporting cross-margining across equities, options, FX, futures, and other derivatives
  • Design and deliver institutional trading capabilities, including but not limited to:
  • Drive architectural decisions across trading APIs, our proprietary order management system, real-time risk, and margin engines
  • Set and enforce technical standards for performance, availability, scalability, and operational resilience in latency-sensitive systems
  • Coordinate multiple concurrent initiatives across trading, risk, margin, asset classes, and customer-facing tooling
  • Work cross-functionally with Product, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and Finance to deliver production-ready systems
  • Represent institutional trading engineering in executive-level planning and decision-making
  • Provide technical and architectural thought leadership in trading and brokerage technology, influencing direction internally and through industry engagement
  • Hands-on engineering, such as writing PoC code, conducting code reviews, deploying to production, and providing an L3 escalation contact point.

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

  • A Director-level (or above) engineering leader with experience owning critical, market-facing platforms
  • Proven experience building and scaling engineering teams focused on complex, high-impact systems
  • Deep understanding of institutional trading and brokerage technology, including execution systems, risk and margin platforms, and trading analytics
  • Experience designing or operating systems that support cross-asset risk and margining across multiple asset classes
  • Strong architectural judgment and the ability to balance speed, reliability, and control in regulated environments
  • Deep knowledge of OS fundamentals and distributed systems, sufficient to set architectural direction and evaluate designs for performance-critical trading systems.
  • Effective partner to senior business, brokerage, and product leaders
  • Clear communicator with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):

  • Experience with algorithmic trading systems across multiple asset classes
  • Exposure to portfolio margin or cross-margining methodologies
  • Background supporting hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, or other institutional clients
  • Experience contributing to architecture standards or externally visible technical initiatives
  • Prior experience scaling trading platforms during periods of rapid growth
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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