Remote Staff Software Engineer - Systems & Architecture Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Global team

Job summary

BJAK is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own technical direction and execution for major products and systems. This is a hands-on role—design systems, write code, and drive critical engineering work from idea to production.

You will lead architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and raise engineering quality across scalable backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure. This remote role supports a globally distributed team.

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.

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

Distributed systems

System design

Hands-on coding

Mentoring

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

Cloud infrastructure

Job description

BJAK is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own technical direction and execution for major products and systems. This is a hands-on role—design systems, write code, and drive critical engineering work from idea to production.

You will lead architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and raise engineering quality across scalable backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure. This remote role supports a globally distributed team.