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 general 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.

📌 Engineer Team Lead, New Markets Singapore (Asia)
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