Bjak is a technology company focused on making financial services easy, fun and more rewarding for everyone
Technical Lead, Applications
Location
United States
Posted
122 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Technical Lead, Applications
BJAK
• Own the application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop. • Lead and grow a small, senior applications team, including backend, mobile, and desktop engineers. • Set the architectural direction for AI-powered product workflows, APIs, and client integrations. • Ensure AI capabilities are integrated into the product with clear abstractions, predictable behavior, and graceful failure modes. • Partner closely with Machine Learning leadership to translate model capability into shippable product features. • Make high-impact decisions across latency, cost, reliability, security, and user experience. • Establish a strong execution culture through code reviews, design reviews, and hands-on technical leadership. • Ensure production readiness: observability, monitoring, retries, fallbacks, privacy, and cost controls. • Balance speed and discipline – shipping quickly without compromising long-term system quality.
Job Requirements
- Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems.
- Strong hands-on background building and shipping backend systems used in production.
- Experience delivering AI-powered products, with a deep understanding of model integration trade-offs.
- Excellent system design skills across services, APIs, clients, and data flows.
- Comfort operating across platforms (backend, mobile, desktop), even if your depth is in one.
- Proven ability to make high-impact technical decisions under ambiguity.
- A strong bias toward shipping, iteration, and learning from real-world usage.
- Move fast without breaking fundamentals
Benefits
- Our organization is very flat
- Small, highly motivated team
- Focused on engineering and product excellence
- All members are expected to be hands-on and contribute directly to the company’s mission
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