Engineer Team Lead, New Markets Singapore

Social Leverage LLC; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Home-office setup $500

Monthly Brex Card $150

Job summary

Alpaca, a US-headquartered global brokerage infrastructure leader, seeks a Team Lead in Singapore to guide engineers building brokerage and platform services for New Markets. You will partner with global teams, lead architectural decisions, ensure API reliability, and mentor the Singapore team in day-to-day activities.

Role emphasizes architecture ownership, regional recruitment support, and strong communication with regional and global stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 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.

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 teams 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.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Staff-level leadership

People leadership

English communication

Fintech / brokerage

Tools

GRPC

REST APIs

Job description

Engineer Team Lead, New Markets Singapore

Posted 5 months ago

Who We Are:

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.

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, totalling over 10 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.

Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

Our Team Members:

We\'re a dynamic team of 400+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond!

We\'re searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca\'s rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

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. Scope involves responsibility around architecture, APIs, reliability, mentorship, regional recruitment support, with emphasis on leading the Singapore team day to day.

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.
• Open-source or strong community presence

How We Take Care of You:

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options
• 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.