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Engineer Team Lead, New Markets Singapore
Alpaca
American Samoa, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, British Indian Ocean Territory +49 moreremotePosted today
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Key highlights
- Competitive salary and stock options
- Staff-level technical depth and people leadership
- One-time USD $500 new hire home-office setup
- Monthly USD $150 stipend via Brex Card
- Financial services, fintech, or brokerage exposure required
- Strong backend engineering in Go or equivalent and distributed systems at scale
Role overview
We are hiring a Team Lead in Singapore who brings Staff-level technical depth and people leadership. You will guide engineers building brokerage and platform services for New Markets in the region, partner with global teams, and represent engineering for Singapore stakeholders, with scope around architecture, APIs, reliability, mentorship, regional recruitment support, and leading the Singapore team day to day.
Responsibilities
- Guide engineers building brokerage and platform services for New Markets in the region.
- Partner with global teams.
- Represent engineering for Singapore stakeholders.
- Own architecture, APIs, reliability, mentorship, and regional recruitment support, with emphasis on leading the Singapore team day to day.
- Architect and ship scalable, mission-critical brokerage systems (gRPC microservices, REST/gRPC APIs, vendor integrations).
- Advance the core platform for multi-region, multi-currency, and regulatory context globally.
- Own API quality, performance, and operational readiness for regional workloads.
- Lead, coach, and develop engineers in Singapore; set clarity on priorities, quality bar, and career growth.
- Partner with recruiting on regional hiring and interviews.
- Facilitate knowledge sharing and engineering culture across Alpaca.
- Act as a senior escalation for incidents affecting regional stacks; improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
- Participate in on-call as appropriate for the team’s coverage model.
- Work with Product, Compliance, and local stakeholders on Singapore and regional requirements.
- Collaborate across time zones with US and other regional engineering teams.
Requirements
- Strong backend engineering (Go or equivalent) and distributed systems at scale.
- Staff-level impact: architecture ownership, cross-team technical leadership, mentoring.
- People leadership experience: direct or matrix leadership of engineers (1:1s, performance, delivery).
- Financial services / fintech / brokerage exposure: trading lifecycle, settlements, regulatory awareness.
- Excellent communication in English; comfort with regional and global stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Experience in Singapore or APAC regulatory and market context.
- Microservices, Kubernetes, cloud (GCP/AWS), event-driven design.
- Open-source or strong community presence.
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
Additional details
- 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 institutional-grade APIs.
- Clients include broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 10 million brokerage accounts.
- Global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals working to achieve the mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet.
- Deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing the award-winning, developer-friendly API and robust infrastructure.
- 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.
- Dynamic team of 400+ globally distributed members working from favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond.
- Searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth.
- Core values: Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable.
- Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
- Recruitment Privacy Policy applies.
- Originally posted on Himalayas.
