Summary
✨ AI‑Generated
A growing fintech platform powering insurance and financial innovation across Southeast Asia is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer specializing in platform architecture and integrations. You will design scalable systems, build resilient APIs, and connect with external partners. A key role in shaping core infrastructure for a high-growth company.
Highlights
Help build scalable backend infrastructure for a rapidly expanding digital financial ecosystem. Collaborate with a global engineering team to deliver robust platform services and seamless third-party integrations.
Description
About BJAKThe original mission of BJAK is we believe people deserve smarter ways to plan, save and grow their money.
This is the origin of our name.
Started in 2019, we built the first mobile-first, insurance platform, enabling insurance to be accessible online by millions in the region.
Today, its the leading insurance platform in Southeast Asia.
Today, we are expanding ways to help people in the region — this includes spending, saving, investing, exchanging, travelling, and more.
Our mission is help people get more from their money every day.
We have teams working around the world, with over 20 nationalities from our offices and remotely, who truly enjoys their work.
We are looking for the most talented and driven people we can find.
We are looking for people who work for their passion, not counting hours.
Who loves building great next-generation products, not status quo.
Who cares about redefining how everyone around us can get the best financial applications, not for an exclusive few.
If you're this person, we'd love to talk to you.
The RoleWe are looking for backend engineers to build the core systems behind BJAK's AI Finance Agent.
This role is for engineers who can build reliable APIs, workflows and financial product infrastructure that can scale across markets, partners and millions of users.
What they'll actually doBuild the system that connects to multiple insurance providers and requests quotes from all of them at onceDesign how those quotes get compared fairly and ranked for the customerBuild the customer database and the secure audit trail requiredSet up cloud hosting, CI/CD pipeline, observability and security (encryption, secrets management)
Must-have skillsStrong backend development in Node.js / TypeScript (or very close equivalent, e.g.
willing/able to work in it)Experience in relational database (PostgreSQL or similar) or non relational database (MongoDB or similar) — not just querying, but designing the schemaExperience integrating with third-party APIs, especially handling timeouts, retries, and partial failures gracefullyExperience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and CI/CD pipelinesComfortable working with sensitive customer data and security best practices (encryption, access control)
Strong nice-to-havesExperience in fintech, insurtech, or another regulated industryExperience building a "plugin" or "adapter" style system that needs to support many different external integrations over timeExperience with Redis or similar for session/cache management
LocationThis role is remote, but candidates must be based in UK.
We are hiring specifically for this market, so applicants should already be based in UK.
LanguageEnglish is our main working language across global teams.
Strong English communication is required.
Interview ProcessOur process is designed to move fast:
1.
Online assessment or practical task
2.
Technical interview
3.
CEO / final round
For strong candidates, we aim to complete the process and make an offer within 1 week from the start of the interview process.
Candidates who complete assessments quickly will be prioritized.
