Staff Software Engineer (Fully Remote)

Alpaca; United States; Remote; USD 141,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Alpaca, a leading provider of brokerage infrastructure, seeks a Staff Software Engineer to join our Singapore team as an individual contributor. You will architect and ship brokerage services for New Markets, designing robust Go-based systems and scalable microservices.

You will mentor engineers, drive technical excellence, and collaborate with global teams to improve reliability, observability, and incident response.

Qualifications

• Strong Go and distributed systems at scale.
• Financial services exposure is preferred.
• Staff-level leadership and collaboration across global teams.

Responsibilities

• Build gRPC microservices, mentor engineers, and raise quality standards.
• Improve operational excellence through monitoring, alerting, and incident response.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Technical leadership

Tools

gRPC

Job description

• You are a Staff Software Engineer in Singapore, individual contributor.
• You architect and ship brokerage services for New Markets.

Responsibilities:

• Build gRPC microservices, mentor engineers, and raise quality standards.
• Improve operational excellence through monitoring, alerting, and incident response.

Requirements:

• Strong Go and distributed systems at scale, plus financial services exposure.
• Staff-level technical leadership and collaboration across global teams.

Alpaca

Alpaca provides agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and 24/5 trading. The company has 400+ globally distributed members, is backed by $400M, and values curiosity, empathy, and accountability.