Technical Lead

About the role

The Technical Lead will own technical direction and execution for major products and systems at BJAK, a company building technology products used by millions across Southeast Asia. This is a hands‑on role involving design, coding, and driving critical engineering work from idea to production.

Key responsibilities

• Design and execute scalable, reliable systems across backend, frontend, APIs, databases and infrastructure.
• Code, prototype, conduct code reviews, debug and solve production problems alongside the team.
• Make architecture decisions balancing speed, scalability, reliability, cost and maintainability.
• Translate ambiguous product problems into clear technical solutions and execution plans.
• Raise engineering quality through better system design, testing, security, observability and development practices.
• Lead technically critical initiatives and mentor engineers across teams.

Required profile

• 7+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems.
• Deep expertise in backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases or cloud infrastructure.
• Strong system design and architecture skills for complex or high‑scale systems.
• Proven ability to lead major engineering projects from design through production.
• Excellent technical trade‑off decision‑making and problem‑solving skills.

Required skills

• Backend development
• Frontend development
• Distributed systems
• APIs
• Databases
• Cloud infrastructure