Principal Software Engineer

BJAK builds technology products used by millions of users across Southeast Asia.

• 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.
• Strong coding ability and willingness to remain hands-on.
• Track record of technically leading major engineering projects from design through production.
• Ability to make sound technical trade-offs, influence engineers, and solve complex production problems.

Nice to have:

• Experience scaling engineering teams, systems, or development practices through significant growth.
• Experience operating across multiple products, markets, or countries.

• Owning technical design and execution for major products, systems, and engineering initiatives.
• Designing scalable, reliable systems across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure.
• Building alongside the team through coding, prototyping, code reviews, debugging, and production problem-solving.
• Driving architecture decisions and trade-offs across speed, scalability, reliability, cost, and maintainability.
• Turning ambiguous product problems into clear technical solutions and execution plans.
• Raising engineering quality through stronger system design, testing, security, observability, and development practices.
• Leading technically critical initiatives and mentoring engineers across teams.

This is a remote role with a distributed, international team working across multiple countries and time zones. Strong English communication is required as it is the main working language. The hiring process aims to complete within one week for strong candidates.