3 hours ago
Tokyo, JapanStaff+
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 balance speed, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Break 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, provide 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 products.
- Improve engineering tooling, development practices, and automation.
- Monitor production systems, investigate incidents, resolve root causes, and 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 production operations skills.
- Proven experience leading major engineering projects or providing technical leadership to other engineers.
- Ability to make technical trade-offs, work through ambiguity, and connect technical decisions to product and business outcomes.
- Strong English communication skills.
- Candidates must be based in or able to work from the advertised location.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with at least 3 days per week in the local office and remaining days flexible for remote work.
- Fast interview process targeting an offer within 1 week of starting interviews for strong candidates.
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About Bjak
Our mission is to develop technology based solutions to improve financial inclusion. We develop new & innovative platforms & services globally. For example, we are the first platform to simplify and digitise comprehensive life and medical insurance, supported by AI agent. BJAK is the largest insurance platform in Southeast Asia. If you enjoy building cutting edge platform-ecosystems that gives equal access to financial services to everyone at scale, join us.