Engineer Team Lead, New Markets

🕒 April 23

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Alpaca

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201 - 500 employees

🔌 API

💳 Fintech

₿ Crypto

API • Fintech • Crypto

Alpaca is a fintech company that provides a comprehensive brokerage and trading platform through a suite of APIs. These APIs enable developers and businesses to integrate algorithmic trading, app development, and embedded investing into their services. Alpaca offers services like trading in US stocks, ETFs, and cryptocurrency with options for local currency transactions. The company is recognized for its cyber security practices and is a member of FINRA and SIPC. Alpaca is ideal for fintech startups, broker-dealers, hedge funds, and other financial services looking to build sophisticated trading applications and platforms with minimal friction through their well-documented Broker API.

📋 Description

• 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.

🎯 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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