Engineer Team Lead, New Markets Singapore

Your Role:

We are hiring a Team Lead in Singapore who brings Staff-level technical depth and people leadership:

• Guide engineers building brokerage and platform services for New Markets in the region.
• Partner with global teams and represent engineering for Singapore stakeholders.
• Responsibility around architecture, APIs, reliability, mentorship, and regional recruitment support.

Things you get to do:

• Technical architecture and delivery: 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.

• Leadership and people: 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.

• Operational excellence: 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.

• Stakeholder collaboration: Work with Product, Compliance, and local stakeholders on Singapore and regional requirements.
• Collaborate across time zones with US and other regional engineering teams.

What we look for (Must-Haves):

• 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.

Who You Might Be (Nice-To-Haves):

• Experience in Singapore or APAC regulatory and market context.
• Microservices, Kubernetes, cloud (GCP/AWS), event-driven design.
• Open-source or strong community presence.

How We Take Care of You:

• 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

Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.