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George Town, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
Onsite
Who we are.
At Bluehost, we believe all small businesses deserve the opportunity to succeed online. Our mission is to give small businesses the confidence to think big. We're the all-in-one platform for small businesses to grow online with powerful simplicity, premium performance, smart tools and human support.
We’re looking for a strong engineering lead to drive next-generation AI and Developer Platform initiatives across multiple brands and product ecosystems. This role is ideal for someone who can operate hands-on at the architecture level while also leading platform thinking, developer experience improvements, AI integrations, automation, observability, and scalable engineering practices.
The person will work closely with product, infrastructure, platform, and application engineering teams to modernize internal systems and accelerate AI adoption across customer-facing and internal platforms
What you’ll do & how you’ll make your mark.
Lead architecture and implementation of companywide initiatives leveraging AI
Build scalable developer platform capabilities for engineering teams
Drive AI integrations across customer flows, internal tools, automation, and support systems
Improve engineering productivity through tooling, workflows, CI/CD, observability, and automation
Define long-term technical direction for platform modernization
Partner with Infra, SRE, Security, and Product teams for platform reliability and scalability
Establish engineering standards, reusable frameworks, and best practices
Mentor engineers and influence cross-functional technical decisions
Evaluate and introduce modern AI tooling, LLM integrations, RAG systems, copilots, and agentic workflows
Drive operational excellence around logging, monitoring, telemetry, debugging, and platform reliability
Develop and own your application(s), pipelines, deployment, logging and telemetry
Core Engineering
Strong experience in distributed HA systems, scalable web platforms
Strong coding skills in Java, (bonus points if also familiar with Node.Js)
Hands on experience with spring boot, maven, docker, java 16 to java 21, microservices (bonus points if in spring), jwt, oauth
Good to have experience with spring ai, redis
Basic understanding of networking, kafka, grafana, linux commands, tomcat
AI & Platform Experience
This is primarily an SDE role focused on adding AI capabilities to our
existing systems - you won't be doing foundational ML work, but you'll be
encouraged to build and maintain pipelines where they solve a real problem.
Experience integrating LLM capabilities into products — prompt engineering, embeddings, RAG pipelines
Familiarity with agent/orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph) or agentic tooling like MCP
Comfortable using AI-assisted coding tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) in daily workflow
Bonus: understanding of transformer/model architecture, or experience building your own ML pipeline
Cloud & Infrastructure
Mandatory: k8s (need to know how to debug k8s errors), docker, AWS or GCP or OCI (need to know and worked with at least one cloud provider not limited to the ones mentioned), Grafana or Datadog (or some alternative that performs the same role)
Good to have: jenkins, helm or terraform (one of the two, bonus points if both), OTEL, Loki or Prometheus or Clickhouse (need to have worked with anyone, bonus points if more than one)
Leadership Expectations
Ability to lead ambiguous and fast-moving initiatives
Strong ownership mindset and execution capability
Excellent communication and stakeholder management
Comfortable working across product, infra, and engineering teams
Ability to challenge existing systems and drive modernization
Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical discussion
Who you are & what you’ll need to succeed.
6–10+ years of engineering experience
Experience building internal developer platforms
Experience in large-scale enterprise or multi-brand ecosystems
Knowledge of identity systems, authentication, SSO, or platform integrations
Exposure to AI governance and AI security
Experience with event-driven systems and workflow orchestration
Previously worked as Senior Engineer, Staff Engineer, Tech Lead, Principal Engineer, or Engineering Lead
Hands-on builder with strong architecture skills
Passionate about AI evolution and developer tooling
Able to balance speed, scalability, and business impact
Why you’ll love us.
We’ve evolved: We provide three work environment scenarios. You can feel like a Newfolder in a work-from-home, hybrid, or work-from-the-office environment.
Work-life balance: Our work is thrilling and meaningful, but we know balance is key to living well.
We celebrate one another’s differences: We’re proud of our culture of diversity and inclusion. We foster a culture of belonging. Our company and customers benefit when employees bring their authentic selves to work. We have programs that bring us together on important issues and provide learning and development opportunities for all employees. We have 20+ affinity groups where you can network and connect with employees globally.
We care about you: At Bluehost, taking care of our employees is our top priority. We make sure that cutting edge benefits are in place for you. Some of the benefits you will have: We have partnered with some of the best insurance providers to provide you excellent Health Insurance options, Education/ Certification Sponsorships to give you a chance to further your knowledge, Flexi-leaves to take personal time off and much more. Building a community with one domain at a time, one employee at a time.
Where can we take you? We’re fans of helping our employees learn different aspects of the business, be challenged with new tasks, be mentored, and grow their careers. Unfold new possibilities with Bluehost #OTOD!
This Job Description includes the essential job functions required to perform the job described above, as well as additional duties and responsibilities. This Job Description is not an exhaustive list of all functions that the employee performing this job may be required to perform. The Company reserves the right to revise the Job Description at any time, and to require the employee to perform functions in addition to those listed above.