Senior Sales Engineer (Korean proficiency required)

The role

You will serve as a technical subject matter expert to support the sales process for Alpaca's products and services. You will focus on expanding the enterprise partner base within an assigned territory.

What you will do

• Serve as the product and technical subject matter expert
• Serve as a regional market-specific expert in regulations, compliance, and jurisdictional requirements
• Collaborate with Sales and Customer Success teams
• Present product and technical use cases to prospective clients
• Translate complex business and technical requirements into simple solutions
• Create sales support materials and documentation
• Own technical sales engagement end-to-end including discovery calls, solution validation, RFPs, and questionnaires
• Lead demo strategy and execution
• Travel as needed to support sales activities and customer engagements
• Work with the product team to test and roll out new features

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in a Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Technical consulting, Technical Product Management or Partner Engineering client-facing role
• Experience working at API or SaaS-first companies
• Hands-on experience working with APIs, WebSockets, Postman, Grafana and JSON
• Experience working with FIX eXchange protocol
• Financial services / fintech / brokerage exposure: trading lifecycle, settlements, regulatory awareness
• Superior verbal and written communication skills in English
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into simple, understandable terms
• Ability to manage multiple assignments simultaneously, work independently and drive projects to completion
• Professional or business-level fluency in spoken and written Korean

Nice to have

• Experience working at a Broker-Dealer or FinTech company
• Closing Enterprise deals alongside AEs
• Securities Industry Essentials (SIE) and or Series 7
• Familiarity with Metabase
• Experience or familiarity with Bloomberg tools
• Experience working with Coast (demo software)
• Excited to learn more about the securities industry
• Experience working with OpenAPI, ReadMe and documentation

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

About the company

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. It serves hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with institutional-grade APIs.