Product Engineer - AI FinanceBJAK · Malaysia

Product Engineer - AI Finance

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-28 Malaysia Fulltime Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market RM6,000–RM12,000/mo

About the Company

KIRA is a leading mobile first insurance platform in Southeast Asia, founded in 2019, that empowers millions with online insurance and now expands into spending, saving, investing, exchanging, travelling, and more. With a mission to make money smart, reliable and within reach for everyone, KIRA builds next generation financial tools powered by AI and operates a global team of over 20 nationalities from its offices and remote locations.

About the Role

The role is for product engineers who will own product areas within KIRA's AI Finance, understanding users, defining product direction, collaborating with engineering and design, launching features quickly, and iterating post release.

Responsibilities

  • ● Own product areas across insurance, payments, savings, investing, travel, or other financial services.
  • ● Define user problems, product scope, success metrics, roadmap, and launch plans.
  • ● Work with engineering, design, data, operations, compliance, and business teams.
  • ● Turn complex financial products into simple, usable customer journeys.
  • ● Use data, feedback, research, and production issues to improve product decisions.
  • ● Launch features, monitor performance, and drive iterations.
  • ● Make trade offs between speed, user experience, business impact, compliance, and operational complexity.

Requirements

  • ● Experience as Product Engineer, Product Owner, founder, growth/product operator, or similar role.
  • ● Strong product sense and ability to simplify complex workflows.
  • ● Able to work with engineers and designers to ship real products.
  • ● Comfortable with metrics, user feedback, experiments, and post launch learning.
  • ● Strong writing, prioritization, and stakeholder management skills.
  • ● High ownership and ability to drive work with limited guidance.
  • ● Experience in fintech, insurance, payments, consumer apps, or high growth products is a strong advantage.
  • ● Starts from user problems, not feature lists.
  • ● Can make decisions with incomplete information.
  • ● Knows how to ship quickly and learn after launch.
  • ● Works well with engineering without hiding behind process.
  • ● Honest about what changed because of their work versus wider team effort.