2 months ago
Singapore, SingaporeStaff+
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.
- Write code, prototype, review code, debug complex issues, and solve production problems.
- Make architecture decisions and technical trade-offs balancing speed, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Translate ambiguous product and technical problems into 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 products.
- Improve engineering tooling, development practices, and automation.
- 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 such as backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases, or cloud infrastructure.
- Strong system design, architecture, coding, debugging, and technical decision-making skills.
- Demonstrated experience leading major engineering projects or providing technical leadership to other engineers.
- Experience working directly with production systems, reviewing code, and resolving complex issues.
- Strong product sense, judgment, communication, and ability to work through ambiguity.
- Strong English communication skills are required.
- Candidates should be able to demonstrate personally designed, built, shipped, or scaled serious products, platforms, or systems.
Benefits
- Remote role with global hiring across multiple countries and time zones
- Distributed international team with flexible remote collaboration
- Fast interview process aiming to complete 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.