1 month ago
Indonesia (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Own application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop.
- Design reliable AI-powered workflows covering state, orchestration, tool use, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling.
- Build APIs and abstractions connecting AI systems to real-world product experiences.
- Lead a small senior engineering team through design reviews, code reviews, mentorship, and technical direction.
- Make architectural trade-offs across latency, reliability, cost, security, and user experience.
- Establish production foundations including observability, monitoring, testing, and operational excellence.
- Partner with ML leadership to turn model capabilities into robust, shippable product experiences.
- Improve system scalability, latency, reliability, and maintainability.
Requirements
- Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems.
- Strong hands-on experience building and shipping production backend systems.
- Experience building AI-powered products or systems integrating modern ML/LLM capabilities.
- Strong technical judgment and comfort making decisions with incomplete information.
- Deep expertise in at least one platform and the ability to work across backend and client platforms.
- Strong ownership, execution, learning, code quality, reliability, and engineering fundamentals.
Benefits
- Virtual and/or onsite interviews with a process of three, and no more than four, interviews.
- Prompt hiring decisions and the opportunity to work on an AI-native product intended to deliver practical benefits globally.
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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.