3 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own technical direction, design, and execution for major products, systems, and engineering initiatives.
- Design scalable and reliable systems across backend, frontend, databases, APIs, 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 through system design, testing, security, observability, and development practices.
- Lead technically critical initiatives and mentor engineers across teams.
- Collaborate effectively with distributed colleagues across multiple countries and time zones.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems.
- Deep expertise in at least one 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.
- Strong English communication skills.
- 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.
- Fast interview process with an online assessment or practical task, technical interview, and CEO/final round.
- For strong candidates, the company aims to complete the process and make an offer within one week of starting interviews.
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.