Engineer Team Lead, New Markets Singapore

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totaling over 9 million brokerage accounts. Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.

### 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.

Alpaca is a global leader in brokerage infrastructure APIs, providing access to stocks, ETFs, options, fixed income, and crypto, along with embeddable finance solutions like tokenization and securities lending. It serves retail traders, institutional investors, app developers, and fintech companies worldwide through its API-first platform. The company, originally started in 2015 as a database and machine learning firm, is headquartered in San Mateo, California.