Bjak

Lead Engineer - AI Payments App

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3 hours ago
Hong Kong, Hong KongStaff+

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 balancing speed, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Break ambiguous product and technical problems into 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.
  • Mentor engineers and strengthen technical capability across the team.
  • Identify technical risks, bottlenecks, and architectural weaknesses before they grow.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, design, and AI teams to ship products.
  • Improve engineering tooling, development practices, and automation.
  • Monitor production systems, investigate incidents, resolve root causes, and continuously improve reliability.

Requirements

  • Significant experience building and shipping production software systems.
  • Deep 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.
  • Experience reviewing technical designs and code and making decisions for complex or high-scale systems.
  • Strong product judgment, communication, ownership, and ability to work effectively with ambiguity.
  • Strong English communication skills for collaboration across global teams.

Benefits

  • Remote role with global hiring across multiple countries and time zones.
  • Distributed international team with English as the main working language.
  • Fast interview process aiming to complete interviews and make an offer within one week.

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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.