Engineer Team Lead, New Markets Singapore

Alpaca•Ottawa, ON

10d•Remote

About The Position

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure provider for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and 24/5 trading. With over $320 million in total investment from a recent Series D funding round, Alpaca serves hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with institutional-grade APIs, totaling over 9 million brokerage accounts. The global team comprises experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals dedicated to opening financial services to everyone, with a strong commitment to open-source contributions and a developer-friendly API. The company is backed by top-tier global investors. Alpaca is a dynamic team of 230+ globally distributed members. They are seeking passionate individuals who align with their core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—to contribute to their rapid growth. The role is for a Team Lead in Singapore who will bring Staff-level technical depth and people leadership, guiding engineers building brokerage and platform services for New Markets in the region, partnering with global teams, and representing engineering for Singapore stakeholders. The scope involves responsibility around architecture, APIs, reliability, mentorship, and regional recruitment support, with an emphasis on leading the Singapore team day to day.

Requirements

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.

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

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 team’s 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.