3 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
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.
- Remain hands-on through coding, prototyping, code reviews, debugging, and production problem-solving.
- Make architecture decisions and technical trade-offs balancing speed, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Break ambiguous product and technical problems into clear engineering solutions and execution plans.
- Set standards for code quality, system design, testing, security, observability, and production reliability.
- Review technical designs and code and provide actionable feedback to engineers.
- 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.
Requirements
- Significant experience building and shipping production software systems.
- Deep technical expertise in one or more areas including backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases, or cloud infrastructure.
- Strong system design and architecture skills for complex or high-scale systems.
- Strong coding ability and willingness to remain hands-on.
- Proven experience leading major engineering projects or providing technical leadership to other engineers.
- Experience reviewing code, debugging complex issues, and working with production systems.
- Ability to clearly explain technical decisions and influence engineers across teams.
- Strong product sense and ability to connect technical decisions to customer and business outcomes.
- Ability to work quickly through ambiguity and take ownership from problem definition through production.
- Strong judgment regarding when to move quickly, simplify, or make deeper engineering investments.
- Demonstrated personal experience designing, building, shipping, or scaling serious products, platforms, or systems.
- Strong English communication skills and comfort collaborating in distributed international teams.
Benefits
- Remote work with global hiring across multiple countries and time zones.
- International, distributed team representing more than 20 nationalities.
- Fast interview process, with strong candidates potentially receiving an offer within one week of starting interviews.
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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.