Engineer Team Lead, New Markets Singapore
Core
Lead engineering for brokerage and platform services in Singapore, focusing on scalable systems, API quality, and regional delivery for Alpaca's institutional clients.
Role type
Staff-level Team Lead (Backend Engineering)
Builds
Scalable brokerage systems, gRPC/REST APIs, and multi-region platform infrastructure
Domain
Financial services / Fintech / Brokerage
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Backend engineering (Go), distributed systems at scale, architecture ownership, people leadership, financial services domain knowledge
Preferred skills
APAC regulatory context, Kubernetes, cloud platforms (GCP/AWS), event-driven design
Technologies
Go, gRPC, REST, Kubernetes, GCP, AWS
Responsibilities
Architect and ship scalable brokerage systems, lead and coach Singapore engineers, act as senior escalation for regional incidents, partner with recruiting on regional hiring
Seniority
Staff-level, hands-on IC with people leadership