2 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Responsibilities
- Build backend services and APIs for onboarding, accounts, payments, cards, transfers, rewards, travel, foreign exchange, KYC, and risk flows.
- Design reliable systems supporting customer transactions, operational workflows, and future financial products at scale.
- Integrate with internal systems, financial partners, payment providers, AI services, and third-party platforms.
- Own backend reliability, security, latency, observability, data integrity, and incident handling.
- Collaborate with product, frontend, mobile, and AI teams to launch features quickly and safely.
- 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 used by real customers or internal operations at meaningful scale.
- Strong debugging, reliability, security, and data-quality mindset.
- Ability to balance speed, correctness, scalability, and maintainability.
- Fintech, payments, banking, wallet, KYC, fraud, or risk experience is a strong plus but not required.
- Demonstrated personal ownership of building, shipping, or scaling a serious product, platform, or system.
- Strong English communication skills.
- Candidates must already be based in the United States.
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement for candidates based in the United States.
- Fast interview process with an intended offer within one week after starting interviews 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.