Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Target Resume Now
About the Role
BJAK is seeking talented Lead Software Engineers based in the UK to design and build the core platform systems that power BJAK’s AI-driven insurance ecosystem, enabling reliable, scalable and extensible product and workflow capabilities. This is a fully remote position where you'll collaborate closely with our Malaysia-based engineering, product, and operations teams to build high-impact production systems.
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 a 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.
Skills
- Node.js
- Python
- Java
- Cloud infrastructure
- CI/CD pipelines
- System observability tools
- Logging
- Metrics
- Tracing
- Production monitoring systems
- Workflow engines
- Orchestration systems
- Event-driven architectures
Location
- UK
- Remote
Work Type
- Fully remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Lead
- Senior
Benefits
- Learning & Development Budget
About the Company
- BJAK is using AI, automation, and backend systems to power end-to-end insurance operations. Our platform handles customer data flows, insurer integrations, document processing, policy issuance, endorsements, and claims at scale.