Lead Engineer (Philippines)

The role

A Lead Engineer will take technical ownership of complex products and systems. You will design systems, write and review code, solve engineering problems, and guide other engineers.

What you will do

• Lead the technical design and execution of major products, features and engineering initiatives.
• Design scalable, reliable and maintainable systems across backend, frontend, APIs, databases and infrastructure.
• Stay hands-on with engineering through coding, prototyping, code reviews, debugging and production problem-solving.
• Make architecture decisions and technical trade-offs.
• Break ambiguous product and technical problems into clear engineering solutions and execution plans.
• Set a high bar for code quality, system design, testing, security, observability and production reliability.
• Review technical designs and code from other engineers and provide clear, actionable feedback.
• Mentor engineers and help strengthen technical capability across the team.
• Identify technical risks, bottlenecks and architectural weaknesses.
• Work closely with engineering, product, design and AI teams to ship high-quality products quickly.

Required qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with significant experience building and shipping production systems.
• Deep technical expertise in one or more areas such as backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases or cloud infrastructure.
• Strong system design and architecture skills with experience making technical decisions for complex or high-scale systems.
• Strong coding ability and willingness to remain hands-on.
• Proven experience leading major engineering projects or providing technical leadership to other engineers.
• Comfortable reviewing code, debugging complex issues and working directly with production systems.
• Able to explain complex technical decisions clearly and influence engineers across teams.
• Strong product sense and ability to connect technical decisions to customer and business outcomes.
• Able to work fast with ambiguity and take ownership from problem definition through production.
• Strong judgment around when to move quickly, when to simplify and when deeper engineering investment is required.
• Strong English communication is required.

Before you apply

• Online assessment or practical task
• Technical interview
• CEO / final round

About the company

BJAK is a mobile-first insurance platform in Southeast Asia. The company aims to help people plan, save and grow their money.