Senior Technical Lead - Build Scalable Systems (Remote)

BJAK; Manila; On-site; PHP 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

BJAK is seeking a Technical Lead to own technical direction and execution for major products and systems. This hands-on role involves designing systems, writing code, and driving critical engineering work from idea to production.

You will lead architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and raise engineering quality across backend, frontend, APIs, databases and infra in a remote, international setting.

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 architecture

Hands-on coding

System design

Distributed systems

Backend development

Frontend development

Cloud infrastructure

English communication

Job description

BJAK is seeking a Technical Lead to own technical direction and execution for major products and systems. This hands-on role involves designing systems, writing code, and driving critical engineering work from idea to production.

You will lead architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and raise engineering quality across backend, frontend, APIs, databases and infra in a remote, international setting.