Staff Engineer 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

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.