Bjak is a technology company focused on making financial services easy, fun and more rewarding for everyone
Technical Lead – UK Expansion Platform
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
1 day ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Technical Lead – UK Expansion Platform
BJAK
• Lead delivery of engineering initiatives supporting BJAK’s UK market expansion. • Translate UK business, regulatory and operational requirements into scalable system designs. • Design backend systems and platform capabilities for new insurance products and workflows. • Build and extend core services to support multi-region, multi-market platform operations. • Define system architecture for integrations with insurers, partners and external APIs in the UK ecosystem. • Ensure platform readiness for compliance, data handling and operational requirements in a new market. • Review architecture and implementation quality to ensure scalability, correctness and reliability. • Work closely with product, operations, QA and DevOps to deliver end-to-end UK expansion initiatives. • Improve system stability through monitoring, incident response, debugging and root cause analysis. • Ensure safe, reliable and controlled production releases for expansion-related systems.
Job Requirements
- Strong software engineering experience building production-grade backend or distributed systems.
- Proven experience leading technical delivery of complex systems or platform initiatives.
- Ability to design scalable system architecture across multiple services and domains.
- Strong understanding of APIs, backend systems and distributed system principles.
- Experience working on multi-region or internationalized systems is a plus.
- Hands-on engineering capability with willingness to contribute to code and implementation.
- Strong judgment on architecture trade-offs, scalability and delivery risks.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams including product and operations.
- Strong communication skills and ability to align technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Calm under pressure when handling production issues or complex delivery timelines.
- High ownership mindset with strong execution from design through production.
- Bonus Points:
- Experience building systems for regulated industries (insurance, fintech, banking, etc.).
- Experience with international expansion, multi-region platforms or localization systems.
- Experience with workflow automation, orchestration engines or backend platforms.
- Knowledge of Node.js, Python, Java or similar backend technologies.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and production monitoring systems.
- Familiarity with observability tools (logging, metrics, tracing, alerting).
- Experience integrating third-party APIs, insurers or financial service providers.
- Understanding of compliance-driven system design (data, audit, governance).
- Experience scaling systems across different markets or regulatory environments.
Benefits
- Learning & Development Budget
- High Ownership Environment
- Modern Engineering Culture
- Competitive Compensation
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