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Architect and deliver scalable brokerage and platform services for new regional markets, including APIs, vendor integrations, and multi-region capabilities. Provide technical leadership through mentoring and design reviews, support operational reliability and incident response, and collaborate with product, compliance, and global stakeholders.
Who We Are:
Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more.
Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 10 million brokerage accounts.
Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.
Alpaca is proudly backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Unbound, Peak XV, Elefund, and Y Combinator.
Our Team Members:
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.
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.
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.
Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
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