3 months ago
Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Build backend services and APIs for onboarding, accounts, payments, cards, transfers, rewards, travel, foreign exchange, KYC, and risk flows.
- Design reliable systems for customer transactions, operational workflows, and future financial products.
- Integrate with internal systems, financial partners, payment providers, AI services, and third-party platforms.
- Own backend quality across reliability, security, latency, observability, data integrity, and incident handling.
- Collaborate with product, frontend, mobile, and AI teams to launch features safely and quickly.
- Improve existing systems by simplifying workflows, reducing manual work, and automating repeatable processes.
Requirements
- Strong backend engineering experience with production systems.
- Understanding of APIs, databases, authentication, authorization, queues, jobs, events, and integrations.
- Experience building services for real customers or internal operations at meaningful scale.
- Strong focus on debugging, reliability, security, monitoring, and data quality.
- Ability to balance speed, correctness, scalability, and maintainability.
- Fintech, payments, banking, wallet, KYC, fraud, or risk experience is preferred but not required.
- Strong English communication skills are required.
- Candidates should be able to demonstrate personal contributions to building, shipping, or scaling serious products, platforms, or systems.
Benefits
- Hybrid role based in Malaysia, with at least 3 days per week in the Malaysia office.
- English is the main working language across global teams.
- Fast interview process aiming to complete interviews and make an offer within 1 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.