Frontend Software Engineer II (Malaysia Based)

Bowtie Life Insurance Company; Malaysia; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bowtie Life Insurance Company is seeking an experienced frontend engineer to develop customer-centric web features across Bowtie's applications. You will collaborate with product, design, data, and engineering teams to ship polished interfaces and scalable components.

This role emphasizes accessibility, performance, and adopting Bowtie's design system, while enabling flexible work arrangements to support a balanced schedule.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering across the full development life-cycle.
• Proficient with ReactJS or other modern JS frameworks (VueJS, Angular, etc.).
• Solid understanding of core web concepts, semantic HTML, CSS, and core JavaScript concepts.
• Ability to present and explain complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Startup experience is a plus but not required.
• Self-motivated with strong organizational skills and ability to lead, plan, and execute complex projects.
• Autonomous; take ownership of work and details throughout the process.

Responsibilities

• Develop and ship customer-centric frontend features for Bowtie's web applications.
• Contribute to projects like customer portal, group insurance portal, healthcare apps, and insurance workflow system.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, data, design, and engineering from conception to testing and rollout.
• Identify new approaches, improve developer experience, and remove friction from Bowtie design implementations.
• Drive adoption of Bowtie's design system across all apps and integrations through cross-functional collaboration.
• For senior roles, grow the team by attracting, onboarding, and coaching juniors.
• Build accessible and customer-centric web applications to support Bowtie's mission.

Skills

ReactJS

TypeScript

JavaScript fundamentals

Semantic HTML

CSS

Autonomy / ownership

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Job description

Job Responsibilities

• Develop and ship customer-centric frontend feature for Bowtie's web application
• Some projects that you may work on include our customer portal, group insurance portal, healthcare-related applications, and insurance workflow system.
• Working cross-functionally with the product, data, design, and engineering to build products from initial conception to testing and rollout
• Finding new approaches, improving the developer experience, and removing any friction around applying Bowtie's signature design
• Drive the adoption of our design system across the company, within all of our apps and integrations through a model of cross-functional collaboration
• For a senior position, growing the team by attracting, onboarding, and coaching new/junior engineers
• Build accessible and customer-centric web applications to support our vision of making insurance good again

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering and ideally working across the entire development life-cycle
• Professional experience with ReactJS or any other modern JavaScript web framework (VueJS, Angular, etc.)
• A solid understanding of core web and browser concepts and semantic HTML, CSS, and core JavaScript concepts
• Ability to present and explain complex concepts and solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Prior experience in a startup environment/software product company is a plus but not a must.
• Self-motivated and self-managing with great organizational skills and ability to lead, plan, and execute complex technical projects from start to finish
• Be autonomous. You take full ownership of your work and drive your personal development. And you take responsibility for every last detail, every step of the way

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of TypeScript
• Experience in any of the following fields:
  • Design system
  • Customer platform
  • Admin portal
• Experience in contributing to open-source projects
• Experience in working in a product team
• Experience in working in both frontend and backend
• Experienced in the financial and insurance industry
• You advocate software craftsmanship and take pride in your work

Tech Stack

• Python
• Django & Django REST
• TypeScript
• AWS
• ReactJS

About the Job

We work together as a team and our engineers never work in silos.

Cross-team collaboration is the key ingredient to our success. As an engineer at Bowtie, you will be participating in meetings with different stakeholders and a cross-functional project team from early on in the product development process. This is to make sure that engineering challenges / barriers will be uncovered and discussed at an early stage of design/decision making.

We are on a constant search for better ways to operate. At the moment, we are exploring the benefit of the 6-week sprint cycle from Basecamp. But we are always happy to take on new suggestions and discover alternative options.

While communication is crucial, we do appreciate that engineers need a quiet and disturbance-free environment to be the most productive. We make arrangements to let our engineers work from home since our early days and we have flexible hours policies that let people work on their schedule as long as they can effectively collaborate with different parties.

We are a lean team, but we have built/are building some big software that takes hundreds of engineers and years to build.

If you are looking to join a multi-award-winning team (HKICT Fintech Award Winner of 2017, Hong Kong Insurance Award 2020, just to name a few) that has been featured and recognised by tech companies, such as AWS,

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