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BJAK

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51 - 200 employees

🛍️ eCommerce

🏪 Marketplace

eCommerce • Insurance • Marketplace

BJAK is a leading online platform in Southeast Asia that offers comprehensive automobile insurance comparison services. The company enables Malaysian users to compare and purchase auto insurance from multiple insurers efficiently, providing considerable savings and convenience. BJAK is renowned for its user-friendly digital platform that allows quick insurance and road tax renewals, offering discounts up to 11%. With a strong emphasis on customer service, BJAK also provides 24/7 roadside assistance, accident support, and replacement vehicles. It is a pioneer in the insurance comparison sector in the region and has facilitated significant savings for millions of car owners.

📋 Description

• Lead design and delivery of core platform systems powering BJAK’s insurance automation ecosystem. • Translate complex business and technical requirements into scalable platform architecture. • Design backend systems, APIs and foundational services used across multiple products and workflows. • Define system standards for reliability, scalability, observability and extensibility. • Own key platform components such as workflow engines, integration layers and shared services. • Review architecture and implementation to ensure long-term maintainability and system correctness. • Mentor engineers and raise overall engineering quality across platform development. • Work closely with product, operations, QA and DevOps to deliver end-to-end platform capabilities. • Improve system stability through monitoring, incident response, debugging and root cause analysis. • Ensure safe, reliable and predictable production releases across core systems.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong software engineering experience building production-grade backend or distributed systems. • Proven experience leading technical delivery of platform or infrastructure-level systems. • Ability to design scalable system architecture across multiple services and domains. • Strong understanding of APIs, backend systems and distributed system principles. • Hands-on engineering capability with willingness to contribute to implementation and code. • Strong judgment on architecture trade-offs, scalability and long-term system design. • Experience working across product and operations teams in complex system environments. • Strong communication skills and ability to align technical decisions across stakeholders. • Calm under pressure when handling production issues or system incidents. • High ownership mindset with strong follow-through from design to production. • Bonus Points: Experience building core platforms, infrastructure systems or shared service layers. • Experience with workflow engines, orchestration systems or event-driven architectures. • Experience with large-scale backend systems or distributed system design. • Knowledge of Node.js, Python, Java or similar backend technologies. • Experience with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and system observability tools. • Familiarity with logging, metrics, tracing and production monitoring systems. • Experience designing multi-tenant or multi-product platform architectures. • Contributions to architecture-level decisions or platform standardization efforts.

🏖️ Benefits

• Build Core Platform Systems – Own foundational infrastructure powering AI-driven insurance workflows. • High-Impact Engineering – Solve complex system design and scalability challenges at scale. • Global Engineering Team – Work with experienced engineers across multiple countries. • Fully Remote – Work remotely from China while collaborating with our Malaysia-based teams. • International Exposure – Build systems used across Southeast Asia markets. • Learning & Development Budget – Support continuous technical growth and development. • High Ownership Environment – Strong autonomy over architecture and platform direction. • Modern Engineering Culture – Focus on reliability, scalability and engineering excellence. • Competitive Compensation – Attractive salary package based on experience and leadership impact.