Staff Frontend Engineer

The Role

As a Staff Frontend Engineer , you are a technical leader and strategist for Alpaca’s frontend ecosystem.

Your impact goes far beyond a single team or feature set, you help define how frontend engineering works at Alpaca today and how it should evolve over the next several years.

This role is not about being the “best React developer in the room.” It’s about setting direction, simplifying complexity, and enabling many teams to move faster and safer .

You will work closely with product, backend, platform, and design partners to shape architecture, standards, and long-term technical strategy across Alpaca’s frontend surface area.

What You’ll Do

Technical Strategy & Architecture

• Act as a long-term technical steward for Alpaca’s frontend architecture (2–5 year horizon).
• Design and evolve scalable frontend patterns for data fetching, state management, performance,...