Engineer Team Lead, New Markets Singapore

Remote - APACRemotePosted 10 days ago

Role Overview

Alpaca is hiring a Engineer Team Lead, New Markets Singapore. This is a full-time remote role, with the team based in Remote - APAC. posted last week. Full responsibilities, required qualifications, and the apply link are listed in the description below.

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Job description

Who We Are:

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision.

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 9 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 top-tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

Our Team Members:

We're a dynamic team of 380+ 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.
Microservices, Kubernetes, cloud (GCP/AWS), event-driven design.
Open-source or strong community presence

How We Take Care of You:

Competitive Salary & Stock Options
Health Benefits
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.

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How do I apply for the Engineer Team Lead, New Markets Singapore position at Alpaca?

Use the Apply button above to submit your application directly to Alpaca. Most applications take less than 5 minutes if your resume and contact details are ready, and you'll be routed to the employer's official application system to finish.

Is the Engineer Team Lead, New Markets Singapore role at Alpaca remote?

Yes. This is a remote role. The team is based in Remote - APAC, but the position itself does not require relocating to that office.

What does a Engineer Team Lead, New Markets Singapore at Alpaca earn?

Alpaca has not disclosed a salary range in this posting. Many employers share specifics later in the interview process; you can also ask during a recruiter screen if compensation transparency is important to you.

When was the Engineer Team Lead, New Markets Singapore role at Alpaca posted?

This role was posted on July 3, 2026 (10 days ago). It's still listed as actively hiring; we re-confirm openings against the source system multiple times per day and remove closed roles.

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