2 months ago
Hong Kong, Hong KongStaff+
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 across speed, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Turn 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 capability across the team.
- Identify technical risks, bottlenecks, and architectural weaknesses.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, design, and AI teams to ship high-quality products.
- Improve engineering tooling, development practices, and automation.
- Monitor production systems, investigate incidents, resolve root causes, and continuously improve reliability.
Requirements
- Significant software engineering experience building and shipping production systems.
- Deep expertise in one or more areas such as backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases, or cloud infrastructure.
- Strong system design, architecture, coding, debugging, and production engineering abilities.
- Proven experience leading major engineering projects or providing technical leadership to other engineers.
- Ability to communicate complex technical decisions clearly and influence engineers across teams.
- Strong product sense, judgment, ownership, and ability to work effectively with ambiguity.
- Strong English communication skills.
- Demonstrated personal experience designing, building, shipping, or scaling a serious product, platform, or system.
Benefits
- Remote work with global hiring across multiple countries and time zones.
- Distributed, international team collaboration.
- Fast interview process targeting an offer within one 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.