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