Staff Engineer – New Markets

• 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