Technical Lead – UK Expansion Platform

BJAK

Technical Lead designing and building systems for BJAK’s UK market expansion. Collaborate with engineering teams to deliver scalable insurance solutions remotely from China.

Posted 6/27/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇳 ChinaSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Learning & Development Budget
High Ownership Environment
Modern Engineering Culture
Competitive Compensation

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Hard Skills & Tools

Software EngineeringBackend SystemsDistributed SystemsSystem ArchitectureAPI DesignScalabilityIncident ResponseDebuggingRoot Cause AnalysisProduction Releases

Soft Skills

LeadershipCommunicationJudgmentCalm Under PressureOwnership MindsetCollaborationExecutionProblem SolvingStakeholder AlignmentAdaptability