Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join LILT, a leading AI solution for enterprise translations, as a Staff Backend Engineer. You will collaborate with engineering and infrastructure teams to design, build, and improve the platform's backend systems. This high-visibility role involves implementing new features, mentoring peers, and contributing to code quality. The position offers a hybrid work model with locations in Emeryville, CA, Indianapolis, IN, and potential future locations. You will work on Lilt’s core platform, the heart of its machine translation services, enabling customers to deliver multilingual journeys and truly localized experiences. The ideal candidate possesses extensive software development experience, leadership skills, and a strong understanding of cloud-based services.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience with several general purpose programming languages including Java and Python
• 2+ years of experience leading a major software component
• Proven ability to drive large-scale engineering efforts to completion and demonstrated knowledge of industry trends and best practices for scaling cloud-based services
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering and infrastructure teams to design, build and improve our platform’s backend systems, file filters and data stores to help us scale our services effectively
• Apply your engineering experience to implement new platform features to drive growth, partnering with product and engineering teams to help decompose huge business requirements into smaller deliverables
• Actively mentor peers and Lilt’s community on advanced technical issues, helping them grow their careers
• Strive to raise the technical excellence bar, contributing to code quality, doing code reviews, increasing test coverage, etc

Preferred Qualifications

3+ years of experience with Okapi framework and file filters: XLIFF, XLIFF2, XML, JSON, Markdown, TTX filters etc

Benefits

• At market salary, meaningful equity, 401(k) matching, and flexible time off plus company holidays
• Employees receive coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus FSA/DFSA, HSA, and Commuter benefits
• In addition, LILT pays for basic life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability
• Paid parental leave is provided after 6 months
• Monthly lifestyle benefit stipend via the Fringe platform to allow employees to customize benefits to their lifestyle