Role Summary

Bowtie’s mission is to make insurance good again and our vision is to build a category-defining health insurance company.

As a young and fast-growing company, grooming and learning from the next generation is always our priority. We are looking for great talents who share our values to bring the good back through our passionate, innovative, and customer-obsessed team. We are also proud to bring a deep domain expertise and our own proprietary modern technology into Hong Kong. As we grow, we're looking for highly dynamic, hands-on and passionate talent to join our team.

About the role

We are seeking a highly experienced and impactful Senior Software Engineer to drive complex feature development and technical innovation across our core platforms. This role requires deep expertise in scalable system design and a relentless focus on delivering high-quality, reliable, and secure solutions. As a technical leader, you will champion engineering excellence, collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, and actively mentor engineers to raise the bar for technical proficiency and best practices.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop and ship customer-centric frontend feature for Bowtie's web application

• Some projects that you may work on include our customer portal, group insurance portal, healthcare-related applications, and insurance workflow system.

• Working cross-functionally with the product, data, design, and engineering to build products from initial conception to testing and rollout

• Finding new approaches, improving the developer experience, and removing any friction around applying Bowtie's signature design

• Drive the adoption of our design system across the company, within all of our apps and integrations through a model of cross-functional collaboration

• For a senior position, growing the team by attracting, onboarding, and coaching new/junior engineers

• Build accessible and customer-centric web applications to support our vision of making insurance good again

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of solid experience in software engineering and working across the entire development life-cycle

• Previous mentorship and coaching experience is a must

• Professional experience with ReactJS or any other modern JavaScript web framework (VueJS, Angular, etc.)

• A solid understanding of core web and browser concepts and semantic HTML, CSS, and core JavaScript concepts

• Ability to present and explain complex concepts and solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Prior experience in a startup environment/software product company is a plus but not a must.

• Self-motivated and self-managing with great organizational skills and ability to lead, plan, and execute complex technical projects from start to finish

• Strong system design and architecture skills

• Be autonomous. You take full ownership of your work and drive your personal development. And you take responsibility for every last detail, every step of the way

 Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of TypeScript

• Experience in any of the following fields:

  • Design system

  • Customer platform

  • Admin portal

• Experience in contributing to open-source projects

• Experience in working in a product team

• Experience in working in both frontend and backend

• Experienced in the financial and insurance industry

• You advocate software craftsmanship and take pride in your work

Tech Stack

• Python

• Django & Django REST

• TypeScript

• AWS

• ReactJS

What do we offer?

• Competitive Compensation: A package commensurate with your experience.

• Modern Hybrid Work: We value flexibility. Our current guideline is a hybrid model with a minimum of 1 day per week in the office to catch up, collaborate, and maintain team synergy.

• Vibe Coding Culture: We prioritize "flow" and high-level creativity. We embrace an environment where we leverage AI agents and modern tooling to handle the boilerplate so you can focus on the architectural "vibe" and solving complex problems.

• Autonomy & Growth: A fun, cooperative start-up culture that trusts you to own your work.

• Continuous Learning: Education sponsorship and study leave to help you master new tech and further your expertise.

About the Job

What problems will you solve?

As a Frontend engineer in Bowtie, you will be leading and working on producing intuitive, reliable, and sleek software that makes insurance operations a bliss. Your projects can range from developing claims systems, and improving our underwriting engine, to any other tools that make our teams' life easier and more efficient.

In case you are wondering how we are doing so far, here is coverage of our first-of-its-kind online underwriting engine.

What will your day-to-day look like?

Our engineers never work in a silo. You will be working in a cross-functional team responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment. You will be directly interacting with teammates from different departments.

While communication is crucial, we do appreciate that engineers need a quiet and disturbance-free environment to be the most productive. We make arrangements to let our engineers work from home since our early days and we have a flexible hours policy that lets people work on their schedule as long as they can effectively collaborate with different parties.

We work together as a team and our engineers never work in silos.

Cross-team collaboration is the key ingredient to our success. As an engineer at Bowtie, you will be participating in meetings with different stakeholders and a cross-functional project team from early on in the product development process. This is to make sure that engineering challenges/barriers will be uncovered and discussed at an early stage of design/decision making.

We are on a constant search for better ways to operate. At the moment, we are exploring the benefit of the 6-week sprint cycle from Basecamp. But we are always happy to take on new suggestions and discover alternative options.

We are a lean team, but we have built/are building some big software that takes hundreds of engineers and years to build.

If you are looking to join a multi-award-winning team (HKICT Fintech Award Winner of 2017, Hong Kong Insurance Award 2020, just to name a few) that has been featured and recognised by tech companies, such as AWS, get in touch today!

Information collected will be treated in strict confidence and used solely for recruitment purposes.

The company will retain all applications no longer than 24 months of which will be destroyed thereafter.

We are an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, disability, or family status in the employment process.