Lead Software Engineer – Core Platform
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Lead Software Engineer designing and building core platform systems for insurance automation. Collaborate remotely from China with global engineering teams.
Responsibilities:
- 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.
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