Bjak - Lead Engineer

• Strong software engineering background with significant experience building and shipping production systems. • Deep technical expertise in one or more areas such as backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases or cloud infrastructure. • Strong system design and architecture skills with experience making technical decisions for complex or high-scale systems. • Strong coding ability and willingness to remain hands-on. • Proven experience leading major engineering projects or providing technical leadership to other engineers. • Comfortable reviewing code, debugging complex issues and working directly with production systems. • Able to explain complex technical decisions clearly and influence engineers across teams. • Strong product sense and ability to connect technical decisions to customer and business outcomes. • Able to work fast with ambiguity and take ownership from problem definition through production. • Strong judgment around when to move quickly, when to simplify and when deeper engineering investment is required. • This Role Is Not For • Engineers who want a leadership title but no longer want to write or review code. • People who only want to work within one narrow technical area. • Engineers who wait for complete specifications before starting. • Candidates who over-engineer solutions when a simpler approach would achieve the outcome. • Engineers who focus only on implementation without understanding the product or business problem. • People who avoid production incidents, difficult debugging or ownership after release. • Candidates who make vague claims about technical leadership without being able to explain what they personally designed, built, shipped or scaled. • The Bar • We are looking for technical leaders with real engineering career highlights. • A strong highlight is not simply having a senior title or working at a famous technology company. A strong highlight means you personally designed, built, shipped or scaled a serious product, platform or system and can go deep into the technical decisions behind it. • You should be able to demonstrate both technical depth and technical leadership — someone who can solve difficult engineering problems personally while making the engineers around them stronger. • Location • This is a remote role. We hire globally and work across multiple countries and time zones. • remote role • Candidates should be comfortable working effectively in a distributed, fast-moving international team and collaborating with colleagues across different locations. • Language • English is our main working language across global teams. Strong English communication is required.