VP of Engineering, Applications

🕒 February 11

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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

• Own the application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop. • Lead and grow a small, senior applications team, including backend, mobile, and desktop engineers. • Set the architectural direction for AI-powered product workflows, APIs, and client integrations. • Ensure AI capabilities are integrated into the product with clear abstractions, predictable behavior, and graceful failure modes. • Partner closely with Machine Learning leadership to translate model capability into shippable product features. • Make high-impact decisions across latency, cost, reliability, security, and user experience. • Establish a strong execution culture through code reviews, design reviews, and hands-on technical leadership. • Ensure production readiness: observability, monitoring, retries, fallbacks, privacy, and cost controls. • Balance speed and discipline – shipping quickly without compromising long-term system quality.

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems • Strong hands-on background building and shipping backend systems used in production • Experience delivering AI-powered products, with a deep understanding of model integration trade-offs • Excellent system design skills across services, APIs, clients, and data flows • Comfort operating across platforms (backend, mobile, desktop), even if your depth is in one • Proven ability to make high-impact technical decisions under ambiguity • A strong bias toward shipping, iteration, and learning from real-world usage • Low ego, strong judgment, and the ability to raise the technical bar for the entire applications organization

🏖️ Benefits

• Our organization is very flat and our team is small • We value transparency and efficiency • Expect a prompt decision