Engineer Team Lead, New Markets Singapore

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure company. They are seeking a Team Lead in Singapore to guide engineers in building brokerage and platform services, focusing on architecture, APIs, and team leadership.

Responsibilities:

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