Staff Engineer - New Markets

About Alpaca

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and more. We are a licensed financial services company serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs, supporting over 10 million brokerage accounts.

Our diverse global team is dedicated to our mission of opening financial services to everyone. We are committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and robust infrastructure.

Alpaca is backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier investors. We are a dynamic team of 400+ globally distributed members who thrive working from their favorite places around the world.

We are 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.

Your Role

We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer in Singapore to architect and ship brokerage and platform services for New Markets in the region. You will partner with global teams and represent engineering for Singapore stakeholders. This role involves responsibility for architecture, APIs, reliability, and mentorship, with an emphasis on technical leadership across the Singapore stack. This is an individual-contributor role without people-management responsibilities.

What You Will Do

Technical Architecture and Delivery

• 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.

Technical Leadership and Mentorship

• 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.

Operational Excellence

• 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.

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.

What We Look For (Must-Haves)

• 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.

How We Take Care of You

• 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