3 months ago
Remote, ChinaStaff+
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.
- Define engineering solutions and execution plans for ambiguous product and technical problems.
- Set standards for code quality, system design, testing, security, observability, and production reliability.
- Review technical designs and code, provide actionable feedback, and mentor engineers.
- Identify technical risks, bottlenecks, and architectural weaknesses before they become larger problems.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, design, and AI teams to ship high-quality products.
- Improve engineering tooling, development practices, and automation to increase team velocity.
- Monitor production systems, investigate incidents, resolve root causes, and continuously improve reliability.
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 technical decision-making skills.
- Demonstrated experience leading major engineering projects or providing technical leadership to other engineers.
- Ability to review code, work directly with production systems, and communicate complex technical decisions clearly.
- Strong product sense, ownership, judgment, and ability to work effectively with ambiguity.
- Strong English communication skills and comfort collaborating across countries, time zones, and disciplines.
Benefits
- Remote role with global hiring across multiple countries and time zones
- Distributed, international team using English as the main working language
- Fast interview process targeting 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.