3 months ago
London, United KingdomMid Level
Responsibilities
- Build backend services, APIs, and workflows for the AI Neobank app.
- Support products spanning insurance, payments, wallets, savings, investing, travel, and financial services.
- Design systems for user accounts, transactions, partner integrations, reconciliation, notifications, and operations.
- Work with product and mobile teams to deliver customer-facing journeys.
- Integrate with banks, payment gateways, insurers, data providers, and other partners.
- Improve system reliability, observability, security, and performance.
- Build practical, auditable systems suitable for regulated financial products.
- Take ownership of production issues and long-term system reliability.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of backend engineering experience.
- Strong fundamentals in APIs, databases, system design, and production debugging.
- Experience building scalable services and integrating third-party systems.
- Understanding of security, reliability, data quality, and operational edge cases.
- Ability to balance speed, quality, and risk through practical trade-offs.
- Ability to collaborate with product, mobile, operations, and business teams.
- Experience in fintech, payments, insurance, lending, banking, or regulated products is a strong advantage.
- Strong English communication skills are required.
- Candidates must be able to work from the UK office at least 3 days per week.
Benefits
- Hybrid role based in the UK, with at least 3 days per week in the UK office.
- English is the main working language across global teams.
- Interview process may be completed and an offer made within 1 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.