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, debug, and solve production engineering problems.
- Make architecture decisions and technical trade-offs across speed, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Set standards for code quality, system design, testing, security, observability, and production reliability.
- Review technical designs and code while mentoring engineers and strengthening team capability.
- Identify technical risks, bottlenecks, and architectural weaknesses before they become larger problems.
- Partner 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
- Strong software engineering background with significant experience building and shipping production 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 engineering skills.
- Proven experience leading major engineering projects or providing technical leadership to other engineers.
- Ability to communicate complex technical decisions clearly and influence engineers across teams.
- Strong product sense, judgment, ownership, and comfort working with ambiguity.
- Strong English communication skills and the ability to work from the advertised location.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with at least 3 days per week in the local office and remaining days flexible for remote work.
- Global teams spanning more than 20 nationalities.
- Fast interview process aiming to complete interviews and make an offer 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.