2 months ago
Seoul, Korea, SouthStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own technical design and execution for major products, systems, and engineering initiatives.
- Design scalable and reliable systems across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure.
- Write code, prototype, conduct code reviews, debug, and solve production problems alongside the team.
- Drive architecture decisions and trade-offs involving speed, scalability, reliability, cost, and maintainability.
- Turn ambiguous product problems into clear technical solutions and execution plans.
- Improve engineering quality across system design, testing, security, observability, and development practices.
- Lead technically critical initiatives and mentor engineers across teams.
Requirements
- Require 7+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems.
- Require deep expertise in one or more of backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases, or cloud infrastructure.
- Require strong system design and architecture skills for complex or high-scale systems.
- Require strong coding ability and willingness to remain hands-on.
- Require a track record of technically leading major engineering projects from design through production.
- Require the ability to make sound technical trade-offs, influence engineers, and solve complex production problems.
- Strong English communication is required for collaboration across global teams.
- Experience scaling engineering teams, systems, or development practices through significant growth is nice to have.
- Experience working across multiple products, markets, or countries is nice to have.
Benefits
- Fully remote role with global hiring across multiple countries and time zones.
- Work with an international team representing more than 20 nationalities.
- Fast interview process targeting completion and 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.