Jake Whitby

Senior Ta Manager (Via Techsource) @Alpaca

Manchester, GB

Alpaca Markets is a global fintech building the brokerage infrastructure that powers investing through APIs. The company enables hundreds of fintechs, neobanks, and trading platforms across 40+ countries to offer trading in stocks, ETFs, crypto, and fixed income.As part of the global Talent team, I’m responsible for leading technical hiring across EMEA and the Americas, partnering closely with our CTO, Engineering Directors, and Product leaders as we scale from 95 to 200+ engineers.My work focuses on:Building strong partnerships with hiring managers to deeply understand their teams, products, and technical challenges.Designing hiring strategies for senior-level technical roles (Golang, TypeScript, React, Infrastructure, and SRE).Streamlining recruitment processes, improving hiring velocity, and enhancing candidate experience across global time zones.Market mapping and headhunting top engineering talent across fintech, product, and infrastructure domains.Supporting the growth of key engineering teams including Application Engineering, Internal Dashboards, Platform, and Infrastructure.Alpaca is entering an exciting phase of global expansion, scaling systems that manage billions in trades and assets under management.I’m here to help build the world-class engineering teams that will make that growth possible.If you\'re interested in joining Alpaca Markets please reach out to me at J••••••••@Alpaca.markets

Sheffield Hallam University

Bachelor's degree