3 hours ago
Tokyo, JapanStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own technical direction and execution for major products, systems, and engineering initiatives.
- Design scalable and reliable systems across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure.
- Write code, prototype, conduct code reviews, debug, and solve production problems alongside the team.
- Drive architecture decisions and trade-offs across speed, scalability, reliability, cost, and maintainability.
- Translate ambiguous product problems into technical solutions and execution plans.
- Lead technically critical initiatives and mentor engineers across teams.
- Raise engineering quality through improved system design, testing, security, observability, and development practices.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems.
- Deep expertise in backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases, or cloud infrastructure.
- Strong system design and architecture skills for complex or high-scale systems.
- Strong coding ability and willingness to remain hands-on.
- Track record of technically leading major engineering projects from design through production.
- Ability to make sound technical trade-offs, influence engineers, and solve complex production problems.
- Experience scaling engineering teams, systems, or development practices through significant growth is preferred.
- Experience operating across multiple products, markets, or countries is preferred.
- Strong English communication is required.
- Candidates must be based in or able to work from the advertised location.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring at least three days per week in the local office, with remaining days offering remote flexibility.
- Fast interview process aiming to complete interviews and make an offer within one week for strong candidates.
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About Bjak
Our mission is to develop technology based solutions to improve financial inclusion. We develop new & innovative platforms & services globally. For example, we are the first platform to simplify and digitise comprehensive life and medical insurance, supported by AI agent. BJAK is the largest insurance platform in Southeast Asia. If you enjoy building cutting edge platform-ecosystems that gives equal access to financial services to everyone at scale, join us.