3 months ago
United Kingdom (city not specified)Staff+
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 clear engineering solutions and execution plans.
- Set standards for code quality, system design, testing, security, observability, and production reliability.
- Review technical designs and code and provide actionable feedback.
- Mentor engineers and strengthen technical capabilities across the team.
- Identify technical risks, bottlenecks, and architectural weaknesses before they become larger problems.
- Partner with engineering, product, design, and AI teams to ship high-quality products.
- Improve engineering tooling, development practices, and automation to increase team velocity.
- Monitor production systems, investigate incidents, resolve root causes, and improve reliability continuously.
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 technical decision-making skills for complex or high-scale systems.
- Proven experience leading major engineering projects or providing technical leadership to other engineers.
- Experience reviewing technical designs and code and working directly with production systems.
- Ability to communicate complex technical decisions clearly and influence engineers across teams.
- Strong product sense and ability to connect technical choices to customer and business outcomes.
- Ability to work effectively with ambiguity and own initiatives from problem definition through production.
- Strong English communication skills.
- Candidates must be based in or able to work from the advertised location.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with at least 3 days per week in the local office and remaining days flexible for remote work
- English is the primary working language across global teams
- Fast interview process targeting an offer within 1 week for strong candidates
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.