Engineer Team Lead, New Markets

You will architect and deliver scalable brokerage systems, own API quality and operational readiness for regional workloads, and drive multi-region and multi-currency platform improvements. You will lead and mentor engineers in Singapore, support regional hiring, act as a senior escalation for incidents, improve monitoring and incident response, and collaborate with product, compliance, and global engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Architect and ship scalable, mission-critical brokerage systems
• Advance the core platform for multi-region, multi-currency, and regulatory contexts
• Own API quality, performance, and operational readiness for regional workloads
• Lead, coach, and develop engineers in Singapore
• Partner with recruiting on regional hiring and interviews
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and engineering culture
• 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 regional requirements
• Collaborate across time zones with US and other regional engineering teams

Requirements

• Strong backend engineering experience with Go or equivalent and distributed systems at scale
• Staff-level impact with architecture ownership and cross-team technical leadership
• People leadership experience in direct or matrix management including 1:1s and performance management
• Financial services or fintech experience with trading lifecycle, settlements, and regulatory awareness
• Excellent communication in English and comfort working with regional and global stakeholders
• Experience in Singapore or APAC regulatory and market context (nice to have)
• Experience with microservices, Kubernetes, cloud (GCP or AWS), and event-driven design (nice to have)
• Open-source or community presence (nice to have)

Benefits

• Stock options
• Health benefits
• One-time home office setup allowance (USD 500)
• Monthly stipend (USD 150 via Brex Card)