# Engineer Team Lead, New Markets

**Company:** [Alpaca](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/alpaca)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Distributed Systems, gRPC, REST APIs, Microservices, Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, Event-Driven Design, API Design, Brokerage Systems, Trading Lifecycle, Settlements, Monitoring, Incident Response
**Posted:** 2026-08-12

> Leads the Singapore engineering team while providing Staff-level ownership of scalable brokerage and platform architecture for new markets. The role combines people leadership, backend and distributed-systems expertise, operational excellence, and collaboration with product, compliance, and global engineering stakeholders.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### Technical architecture and delivery
- Architect and ship scalable, mission-critical brokerage systems, including gRPC microservices, REST/gRPC APIs, and vendor integrations.
- Advance the core platform for multi-region, multi-currency, and global regulatory contexts.
- Own API quality, performance, and operational readiness for regional workloads.

### Leadership and people
- Lead, coach, and develop engineers in Singapore; set priorities, quality standards, and career-growth expectations.
- Partner with recruiting on regional hiring and interviews.
- Facilitate knowledge sharing and engineering culture across the organization.

### Operational excellence
- Act as a senior escalation point for incidents affecting regional stacks.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
- Participate in on-call coverage as appropriate for the team.

### 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.

## Requirements
- Strong backend engineering experience with Go or an equivalent language, and distributed systems at scale.
- Staff-level technical impact, including architecture ownership, cross-team technical leadership, and mentoring.
- People leadership experience, including direct or matrix leadership of engineers, one-on-ones, performance management, and delivery.
- Financial services, fintech, or brokerage experience, including trading lifecycle, settlements, and regulatory awareness.
- Excellent English communication and comfort working with regional and global stakeholders.

## Nice to have
- Experience with Singapore or APAC regulatory and market contexts.
- Experience with microservices, Kubernetes, cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS, and event-driven design.
- Open-source contributions or a strong community presence.

## Compensation and benefits
- Competitive salary and stock options.
- Health benefits.
- One-time USD $500 new-hire home-office setup benefit.
- USD $150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card.

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