Your Role

We are hiring a Team Lead in Singapore who brings Staff‑level technical depth and people leadership: you will guide engineers building brokerage and platform services for New Markets in the region, partner with global teams, and represent engineering for Singapore stakeholders.

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 integral 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.

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📌 Engineer Team Lead, New Markets Singapore (Asia)
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