Careers

Build the serious trader’s terminal

Alpha is a non-custodial trading app for iPhone: spot across 44 chains, perps, prediction markets and an AI analyst that turns a one-line ask into a plan you confirm once. The stack is Rust microservices, SwiftUI, first-party chain indexers and self-hosted nodes, built by a small team that ships to production every day.

We are hiring engineers who want to own hard systems with money in flight. Every role below is full time in New York City, with pay in salary and equity.

Open roles

  1. Senior Rust Engineer, Trading SystemsOwn the engine that turns a one-line ask into a signed, settled trade across every chain we support.New York CityFull time
  2. Senior iOS EngineerBuild the trading terminal itself: native SwiftUI, live streams, charts that keep up, one design system.New York CityFull time
  3. Infrastructure Engineer, Platform and NodesRun the boxes, the databases and the chain nodes that a trading app cannot be slow or wrong without.New York CityFull time
  4. Data Engineer, Indexing and Market DataTurn raw chain events into prices, candles, positions and the wallet intelligence the app is built on.New York CityFull time
  5. AI Engineer, Agents and StrategiesMake Ask Alpha the best trading analyst a user has ever had, and make it impossible for it to be dangerous.New York CityFull time

Something else? If you are unusually good at a thing we will need and it is not listed, write to hi@tryalpha.xyz and tell us what it is.

How we work

Small team, whole problems
You own a system end to end: the design, the code, the deploy, the incident and the doc. Nobody hands you a ticket.
Production every day
We ship to real users most days behind blue-green deploys and leases, with a written decisions log so the next person understands why.
Our own infrastructure
Dedicated hardware in several regions, self-hosted chain nodes and first-party indexers. Latency and data are product features, so we run them ourselves.
Money is on the line
Non-custodial by design, no optimistic data, no stale prices. We hold a high bar on correctness because a wrong number costs someone real money.

How to apply

Email hi@tryalpha.xyz with the role in the subject line, a link to work you are proud of (a repo, an app, a write-up) and a few lines on the hardest system you have shipped and what broke. No cover letter, no form. A real person reads every application, and we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every line in a listing.