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  • Own technical design and execution for major products, systems, and engineering initiatives.
  • Design scalable, reliable systems across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure.
  • Drive architecture decisions and mentor engineers while coding, prototyping, and solving production problems.

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Global

  • Own technical design and execution for major products, systems, and engineering initiatives.
  • Design scalable, reliable systems across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure.
  • Lead technically critical initiatives and mentor engineers across teams while staying hands-on.

BJAK builds technology products used by millions of users across Southeast Asia. It is a fast-moving, distributed international team working across multiple countries and time zones.

Lead Engineer

BJAK
Global

  • Lead technical design and execution of major products and engineering initiatives end-to-end.
  • Stay hands-on coding, reviewing, debugging, and solving production issues daily.
  • Mentor engineers, set high engineering bar, and drive architecture decisions.

BJAK is a mobile-first insurance platform that makes insurance accessible online and is expanding into spending, saving, investing, and more across Southeast Asia. With over 20 nationalities working from offices and remotely, the team is mission-driven and focused on building next-generation financial products.

India

  • Provide senior technical leadership across multiple engineering teams and business domains.
  • Drive architecture, design, and implementation of scalable, reliable, and maintainable software systems.
  • Mentor staff and senior engineers and influence technical strategy across the organization.

Oportun is a mission-driven financial services company that provides responsible credit, savings, and budgeting tools to help members build a better financial future. It has provided over $22.7 billion in credit and values speed, high standards, and using AI to work smarter.

US

  • Lead the architecture and design of distributed systems supporting millions of insurance leads and transactions.
  • Mentor senior and mid-level engineers while driving technical direction across microservices, APIs, and cloud-native infrastructure.
  • Use Java and polyglot tools like Kotlin, Python, Go, and TypeScript to build scalable, reliable, observable platforms.

The company operates high-traffic platforms supporting millions of insurance leads and transactions. It fosters a collaborative, remote-first engineering culture with opportunities to mentor engineers and shape technical direction.

APAC

  • Architect and ship scalable, mission-critical brokerage systems and APIs.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and engineering standards across teams.
  • Drive operational excellence through monitoring, alerting, and incident response.

Alpaca provides agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and 24/5 trading. The company has 400+ globally distributed members, is backed by $400M, and values curiosity, empathy, and accountability.

$162,000–$186,000/yr
US

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs for policy management and enrollment workflows.
  • Collaborate with Product, Data Science, Legal, and engineering teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.
  • Implement monitoring, logging, and experimentation capabilities to ensure reliability and support data-driven decisions.

This partner company builds backend infrastructure that powers insurance and protection products across global markets with a growing engineering team. It offers remote work flexibility, cross-functional collaboration, and an inclusive workplace.

Europe South Africa 5w PTO

  • Design and implement core backend services for high-performance, distributed payment systems.
  • Take ownership of architectural decisions, balancing scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve developer experience through testing, code reviews, and documentation.

The company builds payment infrastructure that lets businesses manage payments efficiently across international markets. It is a globally distributed, product-driven engineering team that values collaboration, engineering excellence, and long-term growth.

India

  • You will design, develop, and maintain backend services powering Twilio Flex's high-scale TaskRouter system.
  • You will set technical direction for distributed systems, owning architecture for cross-team problems spanning multiple quarters.
  • You will raise the engineering bar through design review, code review, and mentorship of senior and mid-level engineers.

Twilio is shaping the future of communications by delivering innovative solutions to hundreds of thousands of businesses and empowering millions of developers worldwide. As a remote-first company with a strong culture of connection and global inclusion, we have a diverse team making a global impact each day.

US Europe

  • Build foundational platform services for AI products, including user management, authentication, permissions, and resource access.
  • Own full-stack features end to end, from backend APIs to customer-facing dashboards and internal tools.
  • Work remotely with technical autonomy, collaborating across engineering and product teams on scalable systems.

They build foundational systems that power a suite of innovative AI products used by millions worldwide. They are a high-growth, AI-first engineering organization with an autonomous, low-bureaucracy culture.

India

  • Own architecture health of large-scale distributed systems, including failure modes, capacity constraints, and consistency guarantees.
  • Identify and remediate systemic risks such as single points of failure, unbounded queues, and data-loss scenarios.
  • Work hands-on with Node.js/Go and GCP technologies to prototype solutions and resolve complex failures.

This company operates large-scale distributed systems processing billions of events and messages. Its engineering culture values technical rigor, proactive problem solving, and clear cross-team communication.

US

  • Design, build, test, and deploy backend features across payments, fraud, compliance, and user management
  • Integrate with banks, card networks, and third-party services, handling the edge cases money movement demands
  • Write and review technical designs and participate in architecture discussions for distributed, event-driven systems

Astra builds mission-critical infrastructure for moving money at scale, processing billions in annual transaction volume. They are a small, remote-first team with a culture of thoughtful collaboration and initiative.

$160,000–$200,000/yr
US

  • Build and scale a modern cloud-based platform with a focus on backend systems and full-stack development.
  • Own features from design through deployment, improving products and systems from the ground up.
  • Work in a remote environment collaborating closely with product and engineering teams.

Mindgrub Talent is a talent sourcing company that helps fast-growing technology companies build and scale cloud-based platforms. The firm focuses on high-growth startups and product-driven engineering environments, valuing ownership and innovation.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Architect and build robust, scalable, and highly available distributed infrastructure.
  • Build a cutting-edge cloud-native platform on public cloud and automate resource management.
  • Improve reliability, security, and cost efficiency of cloud services.

ClickHouse builds a real-time analytics database platform and manages ClickHouse Cloud data plane end-to-end with compute, networking, and security. As a rapidly scaling global startup, the company operates across 25+ countries and fosters a flexible, remote-friendly culture with equity and healthcare benefits.

India 5w PTO 26w maternity 2w paternity

  • Lead architecture and delivery of distributed cloud-native applications for high concurrency and real-time data needs.
  • Build scalable data pipelines, streaming analytics, and integrate ML/AI workflows with data science and engineering partners.
  • Set engineering standards for code quality, security, reliability, and mentor peers while decomposing legacy systems into microservices.

Outreach is the only complete agentic AI platform for revenue teams, powering hundreds of use cases across revenue motions with AI-driven automation and conversation intelligence. The company serves world-leading enterprises like Databricks, SAP, Siemens, and Verizon, fostering an inclusive culture with employee resource groups and a focus on innovation.

$160,000–$250,000/yr
US

  • Own critical infrastructure components and make architectural decisions with significant autonomy.
  • Build and improve reliable, secure, scalable systems for enterprise customers.
  • Develop tools, systems, and engineering practices that help product teams ship quickly.

India

  • Own the architecture health of a billion-scale distributed system, including failure modes, capacity limits, and cross-deployment interactions.
  • Approve critical-path designs and hunt gaps like single points of failure, unbounded queues, and missing idempotency proactively.
  • Build the parts nobody else can, prototype risky architectural bets, and ship remediations after serious incidents.

HighLevel is an AI-powered business operating system that gives agencies and SMBs the infrastructure to build, automate and scale. With over 2,000 team members across 10+ countries, HighLevel operates as a global, remote-first organization built for speed and ownership.

$219,000–$352,000/yr
Global

  • Define and drive the technical vision for scalable, secure, and high-performance platform architecture.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship, setting best practices and standards across the engineering organization.
  • Lead research and prototyping of emerging technologies, and ensure reliability through automation and security best practices.

Docker is a developer tooling platform trusted by 20M+ users, with products like Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, and Docker Scout. It is a globally distributed, remote-first team building AI-ready infrastructure for software delivery.

$160,000–$170,000/yr
US

  • Partner closely with product and executive leadership to inform and implement company strategy.
  • Drive technical strategy and architecture for the forecasting product across all engineering domains.
  • Champion operational excellence, security, and compliance while mentoring engineering staff.

Endpoint is an interactive response technology (IRT) systems and solutions provider that supports the life sciences industry. Since 2009, the company has grown to have offices across the US, Europe, and Asia, focused on helping sponsors achieve clinical trial success.

UK

  • Design and maintain mission-critical brokerage systems, including gRPC microservices, React-based internal tools, and vendor integrations.
  • Lead regional engineering initiatives, support cross-functional projects, and mentor talent on engineering best practices.
  • Act as the operational reliability lead and incident commander during regional business hours to ensure 24x7 platform stability.

Alpaca is a US-headquartered global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and more. We are a diverse, globally distributed team of 400+ members backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier investors.

$216,500–$318,500/yr
North America Unlimited PTO

  • Lead engineering teams building Life360’s critical services including location, messaging, cloud, identity, and partner platforms.
  • Set technical direction, modernize legacy systems, and ensure platforms are reliable, secure, and scalable to hundreds of millions of members.
  • Partner with Product, Security, Data, and engineering leaders to connect technology investments to business outcomes.

Life360 is a family safety and location sharing platform with a category-leading mobile app, Tile tracking devices, and Pet GPS tracker. They are a remote-first company with over 500 employees and an AI-native, mission-driven culture.