27 days ago
Malaysia (city not specified)Staff+
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 code, prototype, review code, debug complex issues, and solve production problems.
- Make architecture decisions and technical trade-offs involving speed, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Set standards for code quality, system design, testing, security, observability, and production reliability.
- Review technical designs and code and provide actionable feedback to engineers.
- 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 production systems, investigate incidents, resolve root causes, and improve reliability after release.
Requirements
- Significant experience building and shipping production software systems.
- Deep technical expertise in at least one area such as 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 quickly with ambiguity and own problems from definition through production.
- Strong judgment about when to move quickly, simplify, or make deeper engineering investments.
- Strong English communication skills.
- Candidates should be based in, or able to work from, the advertised location.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring at least three days per week in the local office, with flexibility to work remotely on remaining days.
- Interview process includes 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
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.