Engineer Team Lead, New Markets Singapore
Alpaca is a US-headquartered fintech company building brokerage infrastructure for global markets. This Team Lead role in Singapore requires strong backend engineering experience and people leadership to guide a local team building platform services. The position involves high-level architectural ownership of scalable brokerage systems and close collaboration with global stakeholders. Candidates must have experience with distributed systems and fintech regulatory environments.
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Experience
Experience not specified
Function
Engineering
Work mode
Onsite, Singapore
Company
Tier 2
What you will work on
Alpaca is a US-headquartered fintech company building brokerage infrastructure for global markets. This Team Lead role in Singapore requires strong backend engineering experience and people leadership to guide a local team building platform services. The position involves high-level architectural ownership of scalable brokerage systems and close collaboration with global stakeholders. Candidates must have experience with distributed systems and fintech regulatory environments.
TAL's take
High-impact leadership role at a well-backed fintech unicorn with clear expectations for architectural and people management.
Clear articulation of both technical architecture requirements and people leadership responsibilities with specific domain focus.
Must haves
- Strong backend engineering (Go or equivalent) and distributed systems at scale.
- Staff-level impact: architecture ownership, cross-team technical leadership, mentoring.
- People leadership experience: direct or matrix leadership of engineers.
- Financial services / fintech / brokerage exposure.
- Excellent communication in English.
Tools and skills
Nice to have: kubernetes, gcp, aws, event-driven design.
About the company
Well-funded late-stage startup/fintech with $320M+ investment, but not yet reaching top-tier global or legacy giant status.