27 days ago
Remote, VietnamStaff+
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 for complex or high-scale systems.
- Review technical designs and code, mentor engineers, and strengthen technical capability across the team.
- Identify technical risks and architectural weaknesses, improve engineering tooling and automation, and increase team velocity.
- Monitor production systems, investigate incidents, resolve root causes, and continuously improve reliability.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, design, and AI teams to deliver high-quality products.
Requirements
- Significant experience building and shipping production software systems.
- Deep technical expertise in one or more areas such as backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases, or cloud infrastructure.
- Strong system design, architecture, coding, debugging, and production engineering skills.
- Proven experience leading major engineering projects or providing technical leadership to other engineers.
- 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 regarding speed, simplification, and deeper engineering investment.
- Strong English communication skills.
- Candidates should be able to demonstrate personally designed, built, shipped, or scaled serious products, platforms, or systems and explain the technical decisions behind them.
Benefits
- Fully remote role with global hiring across multiple countries and time zones.
- Distributed, international work environment with collaboration across locations.
- Fast interview process with an online assessment or practical task, technical interview, and CEO/final round; strong candidates may receive an offer within one week of starting interviews.
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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.