4 hours ago
Tokyo, JapanStaff+
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.
- Write and review code, prototype solutions, debug complex issues, and solve production problems.
- Make architecture decisions and technical trade-offs balancing speed, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Define engineering solutions and execution plans for ambiguous product and technical problems.
- Set standards for code quality, system design, testing, security, observability, and production reliability.
- Review technical designs and code and provide actionable feedback.
- Mentor engineers and strengthen technical capability across the team.
- Identify technical risks, bottlenecks, and architectural weaknesses.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, design, and AI teams to ship products.
- Improve engineering tooling, development practices, and automation.
- Monitor systems after release, investigate incidents, resolve root causes, and improve reliability.
Requirements
- Significant experience building and shipping production software systems.
- Deep expertise in one or more areas including backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases, or cloud infrastructure.
- Strong system design, architecture, coding, debugging, and production operations skills.
- Demonstrated experience leading major engineering projects or providing technical leadership to other engineers.
- Ability to explain complex technical decisions, influence across teams, and connect engineering choices to product and business outcomes.
- Strong judgment, ownership, product sense, and comfort working with ambiguity.
- Strong English communication skills.
- Candidates must be based in or able to work from the advertised location.
Benefits
- Hybrid role requiring at least 3 days per week in the local office, with remaining days offering remote flexibility.
- Global teams with English as the main working language.
- Interview process may be completed and an offer made within 1 week for strong candidates.
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About Bjak
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.