What are the responsibilities and job description for the Chief Technology Officer position at BJAK?
About BJAK
We build superior application platforms globally with the mission of creating successful businesses while contributing positively to society by making it more efficient.
We developed the first and leading insurance platform in Southeast Asia to digitize the insurance industry. The platform currently serves over 8 million users across the region. We are continuing our mission by building new, superior applications in emerging use cases as applications become increasingly integrated with AI.
Our team is densely talented, highly motivated, and focused on engineering and product excellence within a very flat organization. All members are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission.
What You'll Do
Technical Direction
- Define the long-term architecture for BJAK's systems, infrastructure, and developer platform
- Evaluate trade-offs between speed of iteration and long-term system design
- Ensure systems are designed for scalability, reliability, and long-term evolution
- Guide key decisions across model integration, data pipelines, distributed systems, and product architecture
Engineering Leadership
- Work with engineers to translate product direction into clear technical execution
- Help structure engineering workstreams and keep teams aligned on priorities
- Maintain high engineering standards while keeping the team focused on shipping
- Establish engineering culture, development practices, and technical standards across the company
Building the Team
- Build and scale a world-class engineering team across key talent hubs including China and US
- Identify strong technical leaders and help build a high-quality engineering organization
- Define hiring standards and interview processes to maintain a high engineering bar
Coordination and Execution
- Work closely with product, research, and leadership teams
- Ensure technical workstreams move forward smoothly across teams and locations
- Help resolve cross-team technical and execution challenges
What You Will Need
- Strong technical foundation in system architecture, large-scale systems, distributed architecture.
- Ability to reason clearly about complex systems and make pragmatic technical decisions
- Experience building or leading high-performing engineering teams
- Strong judgment on technical trade-offs and engineering priorities
- Comfortable operating in early-stage environments with high ambiguity
- Clear communication and ability to align teams
We are particularly interested in candidates who enjoy building teams, superior products and shaping engineering organisations.
How We Work
We operate as a small, senior, hands-on team. Engineers own features end-to-end — from design discussion through production monitoring.
Code reviews and design reviews are expected for all meaningful changes. We discuss architecture openly, make decisions quickly, and ship frequently.
Interview process
If there appears to be a fit, we'll reach out to schedule 3, but no more than 4 interviews.
Applications are evaluated by our technical team members. Interviews will be conducted via virtual meetings and/or onsite.
- We value transparency and efficiency, so expect a prompt decision. If you've demonstrated the exceptional skills and mindset we're looking for, the process to offer may be shorter.