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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.
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
Collaborate across time zones with US and other regional engineering teams.
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.
Experience in Singapore or APAC regulatory and market context.
Microservices, Kubernetes, cloud (GCP/AWS), event-driven design.
Open-source or strong community presence
Competitive Salary & Stock Options
Alpaca
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Alpaca is an API infrastructure and licensed financial services company that allows developers and businesses to offer stock and crypto investing to their end-customers. We work with more than 100 companies across the globe to enable their investing products, and our mission is to provide financial services to everyone on the planet. Alpaca’s globally distributed team consists of developers, traders, and brokerage business specialists and backed by a group of well-capitalized investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Unbound, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Y Combinator as well as highly experienced industry angel investors and founders. We are also very tech-enthusiastic with notable track records in open-source and startup communities.
Source: Y Combinator
