Engineer Team Lead, New Markets
Alpaca provides developer APIs for stock, options, and crypto trading, enabling businesses and developers to build trading applications and automate investment strategies.
Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026
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About Alpaca
Alpaca helps developers and businesses access financial markets through API-first infrastructure for stock, options, and cryptocurrency trading. Users can build algorithmic trading strategies, create investing applications, and integrate brokerage services into their platforms.
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About the Role
You will architect and deliver scalable brokerage systems, own API quality and operational readiness for regional workloads, and drive multi-region and multi-currency platform improvements. You will lead and mentor engineers in Singapore, support regional hiring, act as a senior escalation for incidents, improve monitoring and incident response, and collaborate with product, compliance, and global engineering teams.
Requirements
- Strong backend engineering experience with Go or equivalent and distributed systems at scale
- Staff-level impact with architecture ownership and cross-team technical leadership
- People leadership experience in direct or matrix management including 1:1s and performance management
- Financial services or fintech experience with trading lifecycle, settlements, and regulatory awareness
- Excellent communication in English and comfort working with regional and global stakeholders
- Experience in Singapore or APAC regulatory and market context (nice to have)
- Experience with microservices, Kubernetes, cloud (GCP or AWS), and event-driven design (nice to have)
- Open-source or community presence (nice to have)
Responsibilities
- Architect and ship scalable, mission-critical brokerage systems
- Advance the core platform for multi-region, multi-currency, and regulatory contexts
- Own API quality, performance, and operational readiness for regional workloads
- Lead, coach, and develop engineers in Singapore
- Partner with recruiting on regional hiring and interviews
- Facilitate knowledge sharing and engineering culture
- 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 regional requirements
- Collaborate across time zones with US and other regional engineering teams
Benefits
- Stock options
- Health benefits
- One-time home office setup allowance (USD 500)
- Monthly stipend (USD 150 via Brex Card)
