3 hours ago
Tokyo, JapanStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design and execution of major products, features, and engineering initiatives.
- Design scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure.
- Write and review code, prototype, debug complex issues, and solve production problems.
- Make architecture decisions and technical trade-offs involving speed, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Set standards for code quality, system design, testing, security, observability, and production reliability.
- Review technical designs and code and provide actionable feedback.
- Mentor engineers and strengthen technical capability across the team.
- Identify technical risks, bottlenecks, and architectural weaknesses.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, design, and AI teams to ship high-quality products.
- Improve engineering tooling, development practices, and automation.
- Monitor production systems, investigate incidents, resolve root causes, and continuously improve reliability.
Requirements
- Significant experience building and shipping production software systems.
- Deep expertise in one or more areas including backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases, or cloud infrastructure.
- Strong system design, architecture, coding, debugging, and production systems experience.
- Proven experience leading major engineering projects or providing technical leadership to other engineers.
- Ability to communicate complex technical decisions clearly and influence engineers across teams.
- Strong product sense, ownership, judgment, and comfort working with ambiguity.
- Strong English communication skills are required.
- Candidates must be based in or able to work from the location where the role is advertised.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with at least 3 days per week in the local office and remaining days flexible for remote work.
- English is the main working language across global teams.
- Fast interview process, with strong candidates potentially receiving an offer within 1 week of starting interviews.
About Bjak
Our mission is to develop technology based solutions to improve financial inclusion. We develop new & innovative platforms & services globally. For example, we are the first platform to simplify and digitise comprehensive life and medical insurance, supported by AI agent. BJAK is the largest insurance platform in Southeast Asia. If you enjoy building cutting edge platform-ecosystems that gives equal access to financial services to everyone at scale, join us.