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 engineering team.
- Drive architecture decisions and trade-offs involving speed, scalability, reliability, cost, and maintainability.
- Translate ambiguous product problems into technical solutions and execution plans.
- Improve engineering quality through stronger system design, testing, security, observability, and development practices.
- Lead technically critical initiatives and mentor engineers across teams.
Requirements
- Have 7+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems.
- Demonstrate deep expertise in backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases, or cloud infrastructure.
- Have strong system design and architecture skills for complex or high-scale systems.
- Demonstrate strong coding ability and willingness to remain hands-on.
- Have a track record of technically leading major engineering projects from design through production.
- Be able to make sound technical trade-offs, influence engineers, and solve complex production problems.
- Strong English communication is required.
Benefits
- Fully remote role with global hiring.
- Work across multiple countries and time zones in a distributed international team.
- Fast interview process targeting an offer within one week from the start of 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.