Lead Engineer - AI-Native Email App
Bjak · Remote · Seoul, Korea ·
COMPENSATION
€•• – ••k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Lead Engineer role
- Fully remote (global)
- Hands-on leadership
- AI-native product
- Fast hiring process
Join BJAK as a Lead Engineer to shape the architecture and execution of complex products. You will balance high-level technical decisions with hands-on coding, ensuring scalable and reliable systems while mentoring other engineers in a distributed environment.
What you'll do
- Lead technical design and execution for major products and features
- Design scalable backend, frontend, API, and infrastructure systems
- Write code, prototype solutions, and perform detailed code reviews
- Mentor engineers to strengthen overall team technical capability
- Monitor production systems and resolve incidents to ensure reliability
- Collaborate with product and AI teams to ship high-quality software
- Improve engineering tooling and automation to boost team velocity
What you'll need
- Strong background in building and shipping production software systems
- Deep expertise in backend, frontend, distributed systems, or cloud infra
- Proven experience providing technical leadership on major projects
- Ability to make architectural decisions for high-scale complex systems
- Willingness to remain hands-on with coding and debugging tasks
- Strong English communication skills for global team collaboration
- Capacity to work effectively with ambiguity and fast-moving goals
How you'll work
- Fully remote position with global hiring scope
- Collaboration across multiple countries and time zones
- English is the primary working language for all teams
Hiring process
- Complete an online assessment or practical task
- Participate in a technical interview round
- Final interview with the CEO
- Process aims to conclude within one week for strong candidates