3 months ago
Remote, VietnamStaff+
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 and review code, prototype solutions, debug complex issues, and solve production problems.
- Make architecture decisions and technical trade-offs balancing speed, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Set standards for code quality, system design, testing, security, observability, and production reliability.
- Review technical designs and code, mentor engineers, and strengthen team technical capabilities.
- Identify technical risks, bottlenecks, and architectural weaknesses before they grow.
- 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 production engineering capabilities.
- Proven experience leading major engineering projects or providing technical leadership to other engineers.
- Ability to communicate and explain complex technical decisions, influence across teams, and connect engineering choices to product and business outcomes.
- Ability to work effectively with ambiguity, take ownership through production, and demonstrate personally designed, built, shipped, or scaled systems.
- Strong English communication skills are required.
- Candidates must complete an online assessment or practical task, technical interview, and CEO/final round.
Benefits
- Remote role with global hiring across multiple countries and time zones
- Distributed, international team environment
- Fast interview process targeting an offer within one week for strong candidates
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.