Senior Backend Engineer, Platform & Integrations

The role

Backend engineers will build core systems for the insurance comparison platform. This includes building APIs, workflows, and product infrastructure to scale across markets and users.

What you will do

• Build the system that connects to multiple insurance providers and requests quotes
• Design how quotes get compared fairly and ranked for the customer
• Build the customer database and the secure audit trail required
• Set up cloud hosting, CI/CD pipeline, observability and security

Required qualifications

• Strong backend development in Node.js / TypeScript (or very close equivalent)
• Experience in relational database (PostgreSQL or similar) or non relational database (MongoDB or similar) designing the schema
• Experience integrating with third-party APIs, especially handling timeouts, retries, and partial failures gracefully
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and CI/CD pipelines
• Comfortable working with sensitive customer data and security best practices (encryption, access control)
• Strong English communication

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech, insurtech, or another regulated industry
• Experience building a "plugin" or "adapter" style system that needs to support many different external integrations over time
• Experience with Redis or similar for session/cache management

Before you apply

• Candidates must be based in UK
• Online assessment or practical task
• Technical interview
• CEO / final round

About the company

BJAK is an insurance platform started in 2019 that aims to provide smarter ways to plan, save and grow money. It is the leading insurance platform in Southeast Asia.