Lead Engineer - AI Payments App

About the role

The Lead Engineer will take technical ownership of complex products and systems while raising the engineering bar across the team. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring the ability to design systems, write and review code, and drive major initiatives from concept to production. The role involves balancing architecture and implementation to deliver high-quality financial applications.

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.
• Stay hands-on with engineering through coding, prototyping, code reviews, debugging and production problem-solving.
• Make architecture decisions and technical trade-offs that balance speed, scalability, reliability and maintainability.
• Break ambiguous product and technical problems into clear engineering solutions and execution plans.
• Set a high bar for code quality, system design, testing, security, observability and production reliability.
• Mentor engineers and help strengthen technical capability across the team.
• Own systems beyond release by monitoring production, investigating incidents and resolving root causes.

Required skills

• Software engineering
• System design
• Architecture
• Backend
• Frontend
• Distributed systems
• APIs
• Databases
• Cloud infrastructure

About the Company

Bjak is a leading insurance platform in Southeast Asia that started in 2019 with a mission to provide smarter ways for people to plan, save, and grow their money. The company is expanding its services to include spending, investing, exchanging, and travelling, with a global team of over 20 nationalities.