3 months ago
Remote, PhilippinesStaff+
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.
- Translate ambiguous product problems into technical solutions and execution plans.
- Lead critical engineering initiatives and mentor engineers across teams.
- Improve engineering quality across 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 at least one of 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 sound technical trade-offs, influence engineers, and solve complex production problems.
- Prefer experience scaling engineering teams, systems, or development practices through significant growth.
- Prefer experience working across multiple products, markets, or countries.
- Require strong English communication and effectiveness in distributed, international teams.
Benefits
- This is a fully remote role open globally, with collaboration across multiple countries, time zones, and locations.
- The interview process includes an online assessment or practical task, a technical interview, and a CEO/final round.
- The company aims to complete the process and make an offer within one week of starting interviews for strong candidates.
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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.