Staff Engineer - New Markets Singapore

We're a dynamic team of 400+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond!

We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer in Singapore who brings Staff-level technical depth: you will architect and ship 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, and mentorship, with emphasis on technical leadership across the Singapore stack.

This is an individual-contributor role. It does not include people-management responsibilities such as 1:1s, performance management, or day-to-day team leadership.

• 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.

• Mentor engineers and raise the technical quality bar through design reviews, pairing, and engineering standards.

• 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.

• Strong backend engineering (Go or equivalent) and distributed systems at scale.

• Staff-level impact: architecture ownership, cross-team technical leadership, mentoring.

• Financial services / fintech / brokerage exposure: trading lifecycle, settlements, regulatory awareness.

• Excellent communication in English; comfort with regional and global stakeholders.

• 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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