VP of Engineering, Applications

BJAK

VP of Engineering responsible for leading application engineering for AI chat applications. Ensuring reliable user experiences and overseeing a senior engineering team.

Posted 4/11/2026full-timeRemote • 🇸🇬 SingaporeLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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 clear ownership boundaries across backend, mobile, and desktop to prevent architectural drift.
Ensure production readiness: observability, monitoring, retries, fallbacks, privacy, and cost controls.
Balance speed and discipline – shipping quickly without compromising long-term system quality.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.
Low ego, strong judgment, and the ability to raise the technical bar for the entire applications organization.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Paid time off
Flexible work arrangements
Professional development

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Hard Skills & Tools

application engineeringbackend systemsAI-powered productssystem designAPIsdata flowsobservabilitymonitoringproduction readinessmodel integration

Soft Skills

leadershipdecision makingjudgmentiterationlearningcollaborationcommunicationownershipadaptabilityproblem solving