3 months ago
Remote, ThailandStaff+
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 and review code, prototype solutions, 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, mentor engineers, and strengthen technical capability across the team.
- Identify technical risks, bottlenecks, and architectural weaknesses before they become larger problems.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, design, and AI teams to ship high-quality products.
- Improve engineering tooling, development practices, and automation to increase team velocity.
- Monitor production systems, investigate incidents, resolve root causes, and continuously improve reliability.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering background with significant experience building and shipping production systems.
- Deep expertise in at least one area such as backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases, or cloud infrastructure.
- Strong system design, architecture, coding, debugging, and production engineering abilities.
- Proven experience leading major engineering projects or providing technical leadership to other engineers.
- Ability to communicate complex technical decisions, influence engineers across teams, and connect technical choices to product and business outcomes.
- Ability to work effectively with ambiguity, take ownership from problem definition through production, and exercise sound engineering judgment.
- Strong English communication skills for collaboration across global teams.
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 interviews 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.