3 months ago
Tokyo, JapanSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and ship full product features across frontend, backend, APIs, and databases.
- Create customer and internal workflows for onboarding, accounts, payments, rewards, travel, foreign exchange, support automation, KYC, and risk.
- Turn ambiguous product problems into working systems with clean user experiences and reliable backend logic.
- Collaborate with product, design, mobile, backend, and AI engineers to launch and improve products.
- Build internal tools and automation to reduce manual work and support operations at scale.
- Monitor, debug, learn from, and improve owned systems after release.
Requirements
- Strong full-stack engineering experience with real shipped products.
- Experience working across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, and production debugging.
- Frontend experience with React, Next.js, Vue, or a similar modern stack.
- Strong backend fundamentals in APIs, data models, authentication, integrations, and reliability.
- Strong product sense and ability to simplify ambiguous or complex workflows.
- Ability to work quickly with ambiguity and own outcomes end-to-end.
- Strong English communication skills.
- Candidates must be based in Japan and able to work from the Japan office at least 3 days per week.
Benefits
- Hybrid role based in Japan, with at least 3 days per week in the Japan office.
- English is the main working language across global teams, and strong English communication is required.
- Fast interview process aiming to complete interviews and make an offer within 1 week for strong candidates.
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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.