1 month ago
Taipei, TaiwanStaff+
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.
- Remain hands-on through coding, prototyping, code reviews, debugging, and production problem-solving.
- Make architecture decisions and technical trade-offs involving speed, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Review technical designs and code, mentor engineers, and strengthen technical capability across the team.
- Identify technical risks and architectural weaknesses before they become larger problems.
- Partner with engineering, product, design, and AI teams to ship high-quality products.
- Improve engineering tooling, development practices, and automation to increase team velocity.
- Monitor production systems, investigate incidents, resolve root causes, and continuously improve reliability.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering background with significant experience building and shipping production systems.
- Deep technical expertise in one or more areas such as backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases, or cloud infrastructure.
- Strong system design, architecture, coding, debugging, and production engineering skills.
- Proven experience leading major engineering projects or providing technical leadership to other engineers.
- Ability to explain complex technical decisions clearly and influence engineers across teams.
- Strong product sense and ability to connect technical decisions to customer and business outcomes.
- Ability to work effectively with ambiguity and own problems from definition through production.
- Strong judgment about when to move quickly, simplify, or make deeper engineering investments.
- Strong English communication skills.
- Candidates should be based in, or able to work from, the location where the role is advertised.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with at least three days per week in the local office and remaining days flexible for remote work.
- Fast interview process with an online assessment or practical task, technical interview, and CEO/final round.
- For strong candidates, the company aims to complete the process and make an offer within one week of starting interviews.
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About Bjak
Bjak builds an online insurance marketplace for consumers in Malaysia and Southeast Asia, enabling comparison and purchase of car, health, life, and travel policies. Its business model is aggregator-based, earning commissions and fees from insurers and partners while streamlining digital applications and renewals. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Selangor, it is privately held and is expanding from insurance comparison into broader fintech services via a planned finance super app.