3 months ago
Remote, ChinaStaff+
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.
- Translate ambiguous product and technical problems into engineering solutions and execution plans.
- Set standards for code quality, system design, testing, security, observability, and production reliability.
- Review technical designs and code, mentor engineers, and strengthen team-wide technical capability.
- Identify technical risks, bottlenecks, and architectural weaknesses before they become larger problems.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, design, and AI teams to deliver products quickly.
- Improve engineering tooling, development practices, and automation to increase team velocity.
- Monitor systems after release, 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 engineering skills.
- Proven experience leading major engineering projects or providing technical leadership to other engineers.
- Ability to communicate complex technical decisions, influence across teams, and connect technical choices to customer and business outcomes.
- Ability to work effectively with ambiguity, take ownership through production, and exercise sound engineering judgment.
- Strong English communication skills for collaboration across global teams.
- Candidates should be able to demonstrate personally designed, built, shipped, or scaled serious products, platforms, or systems.
Benefits
- Remote role with global hiring across multiple countries and time zones.
- Distributed, international team with English as the primary working language.
- Interview process includes an online assessment or practical task, technical interview, and CEO/final round, with offers targeted within one week 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.