2 months ago
Singapore, SingaporeStaff+
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.
- Remain hands-on through coding, prototyping, code reviews, debugging, and production problem-solving.
- Drive architecture decisions and trade-offs involving speed, scalability, reliability, cost, and maintainability.
- Translate 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
- At least 7 years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems.
- Deep expertise in one or more of backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases, or cloud infrastructure.
- Strong system design and architecture skills for complex or high-scale systems.
- Strong coding ability and willingness to remain hands-on.
- Demonstrated experience technically leading major engineering projects from design through production.
- Ability to make sound technical trade-offs, influence engineers, and solve complex production problems.
- Experience scaling engineering teams, systems, or development practices through significant growth is preferred.
- Experience working across multiple products, markets, or countries is preferred.
- Strong English communication skills and comfort collaborating across distributed teams are required.
Benefits
- Fully remote role with global hiring across multiple countries and time zones.
- Distributed, international work environment with colleagues across different locations.
- Fast interview process targeting an offer within one week after the interview process begins 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.