1 month ago
USA (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Own application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop platforms.
- Design reliable systems for AI-powered workflows, including state management, orchestration, tool use, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling.
- Build APIs and abstractions connecting AI systems with real-world product experiences.
- Lead a small team of senior engineers through architecture decisions, design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on mentorship.
- Make trade-offs across latency, reliability, cost, security, and user experience.
- Establish production foundations including observability, monitoring, testing, and operational excellence.
- Partner with ML leadership to turn model capabilities into robust, shippable product experiences.
- Improve production stability, latency, reliability, and cross-platform feature quality over time.
Requirements
- Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems.
- Strong hands-on experience building and shipping production backend systems.
- Experience building AI-powered products or systems integrating modern ML or LLM capabilities.
- Strong technical judgment and ability to make decisions with incomplete information.
- Deep expertise in at least one platform while working comfortably across backend and client platforms.
- Strong ownership, execution, learning, code quality, reliability, and engineering fundamentals.
Benefits
- Interviews are conducted through virtual meetings and/or onsite sessions.
- The interview process includes three, and no more than four, interviews.
- The company offers a small, high-talent-density, hands-on team environment with broad ownership and independent execution.
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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.