Bjak

Lead Engineer - Travel FX App

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4 hours ago
Seoul, Korea, SouthStaff+

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 involving speed, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Break ambiguous product and technical problems into clear 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 to other engineers.
  • Mentor engineers and strengthen technical capability across the team.
  • Identify technical risks, bottlenecks, and architectural weaknesses before they become larger problems.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, design, and AI teams to ship high-quality products.
  • Improve engineering tooling, development practices, and automation to increase team velocity.
  • Monitor production systems, investigate incidents, resolve root causes, and continuously 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 and architecture skills for complex or high-scale systems.
  • Strong coding ability and willingness to remain hands-on.
  • Proven experience leading major engineering projects or providing technical leadership to other engineers.
  • Experience reviewing code, debugging complex issues, and working directly with production systems.
  • Ability to explain complex technical decisions clearly and influence engineers across teams.
  • Strong product sense and ability to connect technical decisions to customer and business outcomes.
  • Ability to work effectively with ambiguity and take ownership from problem definition through production.
  • Strong judgment about when to move quickly, simplify, or make deeper engineering investments.
  • Strong English communication skills.
  • Experience personally designing, building, shipping, or scaling a serious product, platform, or system.

Benefits

  • Remote work with global hiring across multiple countries and time zones.
  • Distributed, international team environment with colleagues across different locations.
  • Fast interview process including 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.
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About Bjak

201-500 employees

Our mission is to develop technology based solutions to improve financial inclusion. We develop new & innovative platforms & services globally. For example, we are the first platform to simplify and digitise comprehensive life and medical insurance, supported by AI agent. BJAK is the largest insurance platform in Southeast Asia. If you enjoy building cutting edge platform-ecosystems that gives equal access to financial services to everyone at scale, join us.