27 days ago
Remote, SpainStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own technical direction, design, and execution for major products, systems, and engineering initiatives.
- Design scalable and reliable systems across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure.
- Remain hands-on through coding, prototyping, code reviews, debugging, and production problem-solving.
- Drive architecture decisions and trade-offs involving speed, scalability, reliability, cost, and maintainability.
- Turn ambiguous product problems into technical solutions and execution plans.
- Lead critical engineering initiatives and mentor engineers across teams.
- Improve engineering quality through system design, testing, security, observability, and development practices.
Requirements
- Require 7+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems.
- Require deep expertise in backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases, or cloud infrastructure.
- Require strong system design and architecture skills for complex or high-scale systems.
- Require strong coding ability and willingness to remain hands-on.
- Require a track record of technically leading major engineering projects from design through production.
- Require the ability to make technical trade-offs, influence engineers, and solve complex production problems.
- Experience scaling engineering teams, systems, or development practices through significant growth is a nice-to-have.
- Experience operating across multiple products, markets, or countries is a nice-to-have.
- Strong English communication is required.
Benefits
- Fully remote role with global hiring across multiple countries and time zones.
- Fast interview process involving an online assessment or practical task, technical interview, and CEO/final round; strong candidates may receive 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.