2 months ago
Hong Kong, Hong KongStaff+
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 technical trade-offs balancing speed, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Translate 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 and provide actionable feedback.
- Mentor engineers and strengthen technical capability across the team.
- Identify technical risks, bottlenecks, and architectural weaknesses.
- 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 technical expertise in one or more areas including backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases, or cloud infrastructure.
- Strong system design, architecture, coding, debugging, and technical decision-making skills.
- Proven experience leading major engineering projects or providing technical leadership to other engineers.
- Experience reviewing code and working directly with production systems.
- Ability to communicate complex technical decisions, influence across teams, and connect engineering choices to customer and business outcomes.
- Strong judgment, ownership, product sense, and comfort working quickly with ambiguity.
- Strong English communication skills and the ability to collaborate across countries and time zones.
Benefits
- Remote role with global hiring across multiple countries and time zones.
- Fast interview process, with an aim to complete interviews and make an offer within one week.
- English is the main working language across global teams.
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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.