16 days ago
Seoul, Korea, SouthStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop.
- Design reliable systems for AI-powered workflows, including state, orchestration, tool use, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling.
- Build APIs and abstractions connecting AI systems to real-world product experiences.
- Lead a small senior engineering team through architecture, design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on mentorship.
- Make architectural trade-offs across latency, reliability, cost, security, and user experience.
- Establish observability, monitoring, testing, and operational foundations for production systems.
- Partner with ML leadership to turn model capabilities into robust, shippable product experiences.
- Improve system latency, reliability, stability, and scalability over time.
Requirements
- Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems.
- Strong hands-on experience building and shipping production backend systems.
- Experience building AI-powered products or systems integrating modern ML/LLM capabilities.
- Strong technical judgment and ability to make decisions with incomplete information.
- Comfort working across backend and client platforms, with deep expertise in at least one.
- Strong ownership, execution, learning, code quality, reliability, and engineering fundamentals.
Benefits
- Interviews are conducted via virtual meetings and/or onsite.
- The interview process consists of three, and no more than four, interviews.
- The company states that it aims to provide a prompt hiring decision.
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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.