Staff Software Engineer - New Markets Singapore/SEA
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AlpacaBrokerage infrastructure
Remote - Singapore, Remote - APAC, Singapore business hours; occasional meetings with teams in other regions (including Japan, US, and EU)Full-TimeStaff
SalaryCompetitive Salary & Stock Options; New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500; Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
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Job Details
- Languages
- Business-level English fluency; proficiency in an additional regional language (e.g., Mandarin, Bahasa Indonesia/Malay, Thai, Vietnamese) is a nice-to-have.
- Required Skills
- GogRPCRESTful APIs
Requirements
- Have extensive hands-on experience building broker-dealer middle- and back-office systems of record serving end investors, including clearing, settlement, custody, corporate actions, and reconciliation.
- Have a proven track record architecting complex financial systems grounded in double-entry ledgers and books-and-records models.
- Have deep experience with customer account management infrastructure, sensitive PII handling, and KYC/CDD/AML and sanctions screening across the account lifecycle.
- Have experience implementing pre-trade risk and eligibility controls, including real-time multi-currency buying-power calculations, margin requirements, and order validation.
- Have advanced proficiency in Go or a similar modern backend language and production experience designing high-throughput REST and gRPC microservices.
- Have an architectural background in domain-driven design (DDD) and event-driven distributed systems for high-availability financial applications.
- Be familiar with Singapore regulatory requirements, including MAS, the Securities and Futures Act, and MAS Notice SFA04-N02 on AML/CFT, as well as broader Southeast Asian financial markets.
- Have working knowledge of regional data protection laws and compliance standards, specifically Singapore PDPA.
- Be able to balance hands-on architecture with mentoring, technical decision-making, and roadmap leadership beyond the immediate team.
- Be able to lead and troubleshoot incidents during Singapore business hours.
- Have business-level English fluency for English-only meetings, design discussions, code reviews, and written documentation.
Responsibilities
- Architect and design scalable, mission-critical brokerage systems spanning multiple products or services.
- Develop and enhance middle- and back-office systems, including gRPC microservices, APIs, and third-party vendor integrations.
- Build customer account and PII systems, KYC/CDD/AML controls, and pre-trade multi-currency buying-power and margin engines.
- Partner with core teams to extend frameworks for regional languages, currencies, and regulations, starting with Singapore and expanding to SEA markets.
- Mentor engineers, provide strategic technical insights, and shape the long-term engineering roadmap.
- Lead cross-functional projects and establish engineering standards, code review practices, and decision-making frameworks.
- Serve as incident commander and operational reliability lead during regional business hours.
- Participate in on-call rotations and respond to production issues.
- Lead technical integrations and recruitment for market launches, engaging with regional stakeholders and regulators such as MAS.
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