Remote Engineering Lead, Scalable Systems & Architecture

Bjak; Ireland; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bjak is seeking an Engineering Lead to own technical direction for major products. This hands-on role involves designing systems, writing code, and driving work from idea to production.

You will mentor engineers, lead architecture decisions, and raise the bar across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure. This remote role welcomes applicants worldwide and requires strong English communication.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with shipping production systems.
• Strong system design and architecture skills for complex, high-scale systems.
• Hands-on coding and ability to lead major engineering projects end-to-end.
• Proven track record influencing engineers and solving production problems.

Responsibilities

• Own technical direction and execution for major products and systems.
• Design scalable, reliable architectures across backend, frontend, APIs, databases and infra.
• Code, prototype, review, debug and drive critical engineering work to production.
• Lead architecture decisions, trade-offs, and maintainability.
• Mentor engineers and raise engineering quality through better practices.

Skills

Technical leadership

System design

Hands-on coding

Distributed systems

Tools

Backend systems

Frontend

APIs

Databases

Cloud infrastructure

Job description

Bjak is seeking an Engineering Lead to own technical direction for major products. This hands-on role involves designing systems, writing code, and driving work from idea to production.

You will mentor engineers, lead architecture decisions, and raise the bar across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure. This remote role welcomes applicants worldwide and requires strong English communication.