Engineer Team Lead, New Markets Singapore
Alpaca · Engineering · Lead · 1mo ago
Open to candidates across APAC.
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Open to candidates across APAC.
“Remote - APAC”
Over 400 distributed team members across the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond.
- Async-first
- The listing doesn't promise async-first working.
- Contractor / B2B
- No mention of hiring international contractors or invoicing.
- Global stipend
- USD $500 for home office setup and USD $150 monthly stipend via Brex.
- Annual retreat
- No company-paid get-togethers mentioned.
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About the role
In this role, you will combine staff-level technical depth and people leadership to architect and ship scalable brokerage microservices, REST/gRPC APIs, and vendor integrations. You will mentor and manage engineers, represent engineering to Singapore stakeholders, collaborate cross-functionally with product and compliance teams, and maintain operational excellence and on-call reliability for regional stacks.
What you'll do
- 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 while setting clear priorities and a high quality bar.
- Act as a senior escalation for incidents affecting regional stacks and participate in on-call rotations.
- Collaborate across time zones with US and global engineering, product, and compliance teams.
What you bring
- Strong backend engineering background in Go (or equivalent) and distributed systems at scale.
- Demonstrated Staff-level impact in architecture ownership, technical leadership, and mentorship.
- Proven people leadership experience managing engineers through 1:1s, performance tracking, and delivery.
- Financial services, fintech, or brokerage exposure, including trading lifecycle and settlement awareness.
- Excellent communication in English with comfort engaging regional and global stakeholders.
About Alpaca
Alpaca is a US-headquartered, developer-first brokerage infrastructure company providing APIs for stocks, ETFs, crypto, and fixed income to financial institutions globally.
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