Lead Engineer - AI-Native Email 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 design of scalable systems, code contribution, and the guidance of engineering initiatives from concept to production.

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.
• Review technical designs and code from other engineers and provide clear, actionable feedback.
• Mentor engineers and help strengthen technical capability across the team.

Required skills

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

About the Company

Bjak is focused on reinventing how people spend, save, invest, exchange, and travel. The company believes AI will help make finance smart, accessible, and safe.