Engineering Lead

Bowtie Life Insurance Company; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and benefits

Regular knowledge-sharing sessions, …-

Job summary

Bowtie Life Insurance Company in Hong Kong is seeking an experienced, hands-on Engineering Lead to guide a small cross-functional squad. You will own delivery quality, technical direction and work closely with Product, Design and Ops to ship customer-focused features.

If you enjoy mentoring engineers, making pragmatic technical decisions, and building reliable systems in a fast-moving startup, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

• 4+ years as a senior engineer and 2+ years in a people leadership role within product engineering teams.
• Strong background building web-scale services, APIs and data-driven products.
• Familiarity with modern back-end and cloud technologies.
• Excellent communication skills with product, design and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small engineering squad (4–8 engineers) and own sprint delivery.
• Champion AI-enabled delivery within the engineering and platform teams.
• Drive technical design and architecture balancing short-term delivery with long-term scalability.
• Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to ensure reliability, performance and security.
• Promote testing, observability, CI/CD and incident response best practices.
• Partner with Product Managers and Designers to translate customer outcomes into technical deliverables.
• Communicate progress, risks and trade-offs to stakeholders and leadership.
• Contribute to roadmap planning and prioritisation to maximise business impact.
• Participate in recruiting, interviewing and onboarding to grow a high-performing team.
• Identify skill gaps and support learning and development initiatives.

Skills

Web-scale services

APIs

Data-driven products

Cloud technologies

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Job description

Role Summary

Bowtie’s mission is to make insurance good again and our vision is to build a category-defining health insurance company. We are growing our engineering leadership to accelerate product delivery and scale our platform to serve millions of customers across Hong Kong and Asia.

We are seeking an experienced, hands‑on Engineering Lead to join our Technology team. In this role you will lead a small, cross‑functional engineering squad, own delivery quality and technical direction, and work closely with Product, Design and Ops to ship customer‑focused features.

If you enjoy mentoring engineers, making pragmatic technical decisions, and building reliable systems in a fast‑moving startup, this opportunity is for you.

About The Role

Key Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership & Delivery (Core Focus)
• Champion and advocate AI‑enabled delivery within engineering and platform (product, design, engineering) team
• Lead a small engineering squad (typically 4–8 engineers), providing technical guidance, coaching, and career development.
• Own sprint delivery, ensure predictable outcomes, and remove blockers to maintain a sustainable delivery cadence.
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive team culture that emphasises quality, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing.
• Technical Ownership & Architecture
• Drive technical design and architecture decisions for your squad’s domain, balancing short-term delivery needs with long‑term scalability and maintainability.
• Work with platform and infrastructure teams to ensure reliability, performance, and security across services.
• Champion best practices for testing, observability, CI/CD and incident response.
• Cross‑functional Collaboration & Stakeholder Management
• Partner closely with Product Managers and Designers to translate customer outcomes into well‑scoped technical deliverables.
• Communicate progress, risks and technical trade‑offs to stakeholders and leadership with clarity and transparency.
• Contribute to roadmap planning and prioritisation to maximise business impact.
• Hiring & Team Growth
• Participate in recruiting, interviewing and onboarding to grow a high‑performing and diverse engineering team.
• Identify skill gaps and support learning and development initiatives for team members.

About You

Must have:

• Proven experience (typically 4+ years) as a senior engineer and at least 2 years in a people‑leadership role within product engineering teams.
• Strong technical background in building web‑scale services, APIs and data‑driven products. Familiarity with modern back‑end and cloud technologies.
• Track record of delivering complex projects end‑to‑end with a focus on reliability, observability and operational maturity.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with product, design and business stakeholders.
• Comfortable making pragmatic engineering trade‑offs in a fast‑paced startup environment and mentoring engineers to raise technical standards.
• Strong sense of ownership, attention to detail and a solutions‑oriented mindset.

Nice to have

• Experience in health insurance, fintech, or regulated industries.
• Familiarity with microservices, event‑driven architectures, or machine learning system integration.
• Experience hiring and scaling engineering teams in Hong Kong / Asia markets.

We Offer

• Opportunity to make a significant impact on a fast‑growing, category‑defining company
• Collaborative, flexible and inclusive startup culture
• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Regular knowledge‑sharing sessions, mentorship and career development support

  About Bowtie

  We are the first licensed virtual insurer (虛擬保險公司) in Hong Kong.

  We believe that insurance is fundamentally good, and we are here to bring the good back through our passionate, innovative, and customer‑centric team.

  By combining our deep domain expertise and our own proprietary modern technology, we are building one of the most iconic, category‑defining health insurance companies in Asia.

  We take pride in moving fast all the time and our track record in moving ahead in the game.

  As we grow, we're always looking for highly dynamic, hands‑on, and passionate talent to join our team.

  If you are looking for a rewarding career where you will grow together with strong talents from different backgrounds and build products and services that bring a positive impact on the lives of millions of people in Hong Kong / Asia.

  Information collected will be treated in strict confidence and used solely for recruitment purposes.

  The company will retain all applications no longer than 24 months of which will be destroyed thereafter.

  We are an equal‑opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, disability, or family status in the employment process.