Technical Lead – UK Expansion Platform

Role Overview

• 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

• 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.

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• Java
• JavaScript
• Node.js
• Python

Benefits

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