Engineer Team Lead, New Markets Singapore

Remote - APAC. Posted 6 months ago

The role

You will lead engineers in Singapore building brokerage and platform services for New Markets. You will handle technical architecture, people leadership, and stakeholder collaboration.

What you will do

Architect and ship scalable, mission-critical brokerage systems
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
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
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

Required qualifications

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

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 is a licensed financial services company serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries.