About the company
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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Requirements
- 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.
Conditions
- 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