2 months ago
Malaysia (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Own technical design and execution for major products, systems, and engineering initiatives.
- Design scalable and reliable systems across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure.
- Remain hands-on through coding, prototyping, code reviews, debugging, and production problem-solving.
- Drive architecture decisions and trade-offs involving speed, scalability, reliability, cost, and maintainability.
- Turn ambiguous product problems into clear technical solutions and execution plans.
- Lead technically critical initiatives and mentor engineers across teams.
- Raise engineering quality through stronger system design, testing, security, observability, and development practices.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems.
- Deep expertise in one or more of 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.
- Demonstrated experience technically leading major engineering projects from design through production.
- Ability to make sound technical trade-offs, influence engineers, and solve complex production problems.
- Strong English communication skills.
- Preferred: experience scaling engineering teams, systems, or development practices through significant growth.
- Preferred: experience operating across multiple products, markets, or countries.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring at least three days per week in the local office, with flexibility to work remotely on the remaining days.
- Candidates must be based in, or able to work from, the advertised role location.
- The interview process includes an online assessment or practical task, technical interview, and CEO/final round.
- KIRA aims to complete the interview process and make an offer within one 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.