4 hours ago
Seoul, Korea, SouthStaff+
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 solutions, review code, debug complex issues, and solve production problems.
- Make architecture decisions and technical trade-offs balancing speed, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Set high standards for code quality, system design, testing, security, observability, and production reliability.
- Review technical designs and code and provide actionable feedback to engineers.
- Mentor engineers and strengthen technical capability across the team.
- 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 technical expertise in one or more areas including 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.
- Proven experience leading major engineering projects or providing technical leadership to other engineers.
- Experience reviewing code, debugging complex issues, and working directly with production systems.
- Ability to communicate complex technical decisions clearly and influence engineers across teams.
- Strong product sense and ability to connect technical decisions to customer and business outcomes.
- Ability to work effectively with ambiguity and take ownership from problem definition through production.
- Strong judgment about when to move quickly, simplify, or make deeper engineering investments.
- Strong English communication skills for collaboration across global teams and time zones.
Benefits
- Fully remote role with global hiring across multiple countries and time zones.
- Distributed, international team with colleagues from more than 20 nationalities.
- Fast interview process including an online assessment or practical task, technical interview, and CEO/final round.
- Strong candidates may receive an offer within one week of starting the interview process.
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.