Staff / Principal Engineer — AI-Native Engineering

TechTree; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

TechTree is recruiting on behalf of a global insurer for a Staff / Principal Engineer to lead the move to an AI-native engineering model. Hybrid work arrangement in Kuala Lumpur, with responsibility to shape architecture and delivery across key domains.

You'll mentor engineers, embed AI-enabled practices into delivery, and drive engineering standards at scale. This is a hands-on technical leadership role with strategic impact across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Hands-on software engineering and architecture experience.
• Experience with AI-assisted / agentic development.
• Product engineering mindset focused on customer outcomes.
• Ability to mentor engineers and lift teams.
• Insurance/financial services or high-scale digital product background is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution architecture for complex, business-critical enterprise systems.
• Embed agentic and AI-assisted engineering into delivery teams.
• Apply AI to legacy understanding, test automation and engineering workflows.
• Coach engineers hands-on and influence standards without formal authority.
• At Principal level, own the technical direction of a major business domain.

Skills

Hands-on software engineering

Solution architecture

AI-assisted development

Mentoring engineers

Industry domain knowledge

Job description

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Staff / Principal Engineer — lead AI-native engineering transformation at a global insurer. Hybrid, Kuala Lumpur.

Our client is a global insurance leader running complex, business-critical systems at enormous scale. It is moving its entire engineering organisation to an AI-native model — from design and development through testing, deployment and operations. The tooling and foundations are in place; the challenge now is scaling them across the organisation.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role: not pure IC, not line management. You'll shape complex solutions, embed new ways of working and act as a multiplier across delivery teams.

What You’ll Do

• Lead solution architecture for complex, business-critical enterprise systems
• Embed agentic and AI-assisted engineering into real delivery teams
• Apply AI to legacy understanding, test automation and engineering workflows
• Coach engineers hands-on and influence standards without formal authority
• At Principal level, own the technical direction of a major business domain

What We’re Looking For

• Deep, current hands-on software engineering and solution eengineering and solution architecture
• Real applied experience with AI-assisted / agentic development — not just commentary
• Product engineering mindset tied to customer journeys and business outcomes
• Proven ability to mentor and lift other engineers
• Insurance, banking, payments or high-scale digital product background is a plus — insurance is not required

Interview process: 3–5 stages, including a live case-based architecture discussion. No live coding test.

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