Bjak

Backend Developer (UK)

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3 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Build backend services and APIs for onboarding, accounts, payments, cards, transfers, rewards, travel, FX, KYC, and risk flows.
  • Design reliable systems supporting customer transactions, operational workflows, and future financial products.
  • Integrate internal systems, financial partners, payment providers, AI services, and third-party platforms.
  • Own backend quality across reliability, security, latency, observability, data integrity, and incident handling.
  • Collaborate with product, frontend, mobile, and AI teams to launch features quickly and safely.
  • Improve existing systems by simplifying flows, removing manual work, and automating repeatable processes.

Requirements

  • Strong backend engineering experience in production systems.
  • Good understanding of APIs, databases, authentication, authorization, queues, jobs, events, and integrations.
  • Experience building services used by real customers or internal operations at meaningful scale.
  • Strong debugging, reliability, security, and data quality mindset.
  • Ability to make practical trade-offs between speed, correctness, scalability, and maintainability.
  • Fintech, payments, banking, wallet, KYC, fraud, or risk experience is preferred but not required.
  • Strong English communication skills are required.
  • Candidates should demonstrate personally building, shipping, or scaling a serious product, platform, or system.

Benefits

  • Hybrid role based in the UK with at least 3 days per week in the UK office
  • English is the main working language across global teams
  • Fast interview process aiming to complete interviews and make an offer within 1 week for strong candidates

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About Bjak

201-500 employees

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.

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