Remote Engineering Lead: Systems & Platform Architect

Bjak; Hong Kong; Hybrid; HKD 1,412,000 - 1,882,000; Full time

Job summary

Bjak is seeking an Engineering Lead to own technical direction and execution for major products and systems. This is a hands-on role—design systems, write code, and drive critical work from idea to production.

You will mentor engineers, shape architecture, and balance speed, reliability, and cost. The position requires 7+ years of producing scalable systems across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Technical leadership

Hands-on coding

System design

Architecture

Mentoring engineers

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Bjak is seeking an Engineering Lead to own technical direction and execution for major products and systems. This is a hands-on role—design systems, write code, and drive critical work from idea to production.

You will mentor engineers, shape architecture, and balance speed, reliability, and cost. The position requires 7+ years of producing scalable systems across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure.