Remote Tech Lead: Scalable Systems & Architecture

Bjak; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

BJAK is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to own technical direction and drive critical projects end-to-end. This hands-on role involves system design, coding, and mentoring across teams to raise the engineering bar.

You will shape architecture for scalable products, balance speed with reliability and cost, and turn ambiguous problems into clear plans while maintaining high quality and strong security practices.

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

Software engineering

System design

Hands-on coding

Mentoring

Job description

BJAK is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to own technical direction and drive critical projects end-to-end. This hands-on role involves system design, coding, and mentoring across teams to raise the engineering bar.

You will shape architecture for scalable products, balance speed with reliability and cost, and turn ambiguous problems into clear plans while maintaining high quality and strong security practices.