Lead Engineer (Korea)

About Us

Bjak is focused on providing access to affordable and sustainable financial services for people in ASEAN. Headquartered in Malaysia, Bjak is the largest insurance portal in Southeast Asia. Our main portal, Bjak.com, helps millions find the insurance policy with the best value and highest coverage for them. Our investments in technology such as Custom API, trading systems and data science is to enable easy access to financial services that were previously inaccessible or difficult to understand.

Join us on this exciting journey as we expand our operations in Korea. We're looking for dynamic individuals who share our vision and want to contribute to the next chapter of Bjak's success.

Lead Engineer

Responsibilities

• Manage and coach a full-stack engineering team and guide the development of features and infrastructure across both web and mobile.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers to turn our vision into a tangible roadmap.
• Work closely with product and operations teams and company leaders to ensure the technology platform is evolving to meet business needs and keep pace with technology trends
• Ensure alignment with the key business stakeholders and effectively manage resources and remove obstacles to accomplish business goals
• Manage day-to-day operations of local and multiple offshore development teams
• Ensure that the entire team delivers software on-time and on-budget while maintaining a level of innovation required

Requirements

• MS/BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related fields with strong Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures
• 5+ years of full-time software engineering experience. Strong plus if also knows C++ and backend well
• 3+ years of professional engineering management experience
• Programming experience and understanding of modern technology including: (ReactJS/React Native, NodeJS, Kubernetes, GCP, MongoDB, Docker)
• Experience managing cloud operations for reliability, scalability, and security in GCP/AWS
• Experience recruiting, hiring and onboarding engineering talent
• Strong sense of responsibility; driving initiatives from inception to completion

Benefits

• Fast moving, challenging and unique business problems
• Strong learning and development plans for your career growth
• International work environment and flat organization
• Competitive salary
• Flexible working hours & arrangement, Casual work attire