Staff Software Engineer – New Markets

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🇸🇬 Singapore – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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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 design highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage systems spanning multiple products or services. • Develop and enhance middle- and back-office systems, including gRPC microservices, APIs, and third-party vendor integrations. • Build customer account/PII systems, KYC/CDD/AML controls, and pre-trade multi-currency buying-power and margin engines. • Partner with core teams to extend frameworks for regional languages, currencies, and regulations, starting with Singapore and expanding to SEA markets. • Provide strategic technical insights and mentor engineers to shape the long-term engineering roadmap and foster technical growth. • Lead cross-functional projects and establish engineering standards, code review practices, and decision-making frameworks. • Serve as incident commander and operational reliability lead during regional business hours to ensure proactive 24/7 stability. • Participate in on-call rotations and ensure timely response to production issues. • Attend meetings held during Singapore business hours and occasional meetings with teams in other regions (including Japan, US, and EU). • Lead technical integrations and recruitment for market launches, engaging with regional stakeholders and regulators like the MAS.

🎯 Requirements

• Business-level English fluency, with the ability to collaborate effectively in English-only team meetings, design discussions, code reviews, and written documentation. • Extensive hands-on experience building broker-dealer middle- and back-office systems of record (clearing, settlement, custody, corporate actions, reconciliation) serving end investors rather than trading desks. • Proven track record architecting and developing complex financial systems grounded in a double-entry ledger and books-and-records model. • Deep experience engineering customer account management infrastructure with sensitive PII handling, alongside KYC/CDD/AML and sanctions screening across the full account lifecycle. • Demonstrated experience implementing pre-trade risk and eligibility controls, including real-time multi-currency buying-power calculation, margin requirements, and order validation. • Advanced proficiency in Go or similar modern backend languages, with extensive production experience designing high-throughput REST and gRPC microservices. • Deep architectural background in domain-driven design (DDD) and event-driven distributed systems for high-availability financial applications. • Thorough familiarity with Singapore regulatory requirements (MAS, Securities and Futures Act, MAS Notice SFA04-N02 on AML/CFT) and broader Southeast Asian financial markets. • Working knowledge of regional data protection laws and compliance standards for sensitive client data, specifically the Singapore PDPA. • Proven ability to balance hands-on architecture with leadership, mentoring engineers, driving technical decisions, and shaping roadmaps beyond the immediate team. • Ability to lead and troubleshoot incidents or bugs with authority during Singapore business hours.

🏖️ 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

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