2 months ago
Singapore, SingaporeStaff+
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 balancing speed, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Define engineering solutions and execution plans for ambiguous product and technical problems.
- 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.
- 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
- Strong software engineering background with significant experience building and shipping production systems.
- Deep expertise in one or more areas including backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases, or cloud infrastructure.
- Strong system design, architecture, coding, debugging, code review, and production systems experience.
- Proven experience leading major engineering projects or providing technical leadership to other engineers.
- Strong product sense, technical judgment, communication, and ability to work effectively with ambiguity.
- Demonstrated personal experience designing, building, shipping, or scaling a serious product, platform, or system.
- Strong English communication skills and ability to collaborate across countries and time zones.
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 and make an offer within one 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.