3 months ago
Remote, VietnamStaff+
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 balancing speed, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- 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 before they become larger problems.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, design, and AI teams to deliver products.
- Improve engineering tooling, development practices, and automation to increase team velocity.
- Monitor production systems, investigate incidents, resolve root causes, and improve reliability after release.
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 systems experience.
- Demonstrated leadership of major engineering projects or technical leadership of other engineers.
- Ability to communicate complex technical decisions, influence across teams, and connect technology choices to product and business outcomes.
- Ability to work effectively with ambiguity and take ownership from problem definition through production.
- Strong English communication skills and comfort working in a distributed international team.
- Candidates should be able to demonstrate personally designed, built, shipped, or scaled serious products, platforms, or systems.
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement with global hiring across multiple countries and time zones
- International, distributed team environment with over 20 nationalities
- 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.