Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join LILT as a Senior Backend Engineer and collaborate with a talented team to design, build, and improve the core platform of our machine translation services. You will work on backend systems, file filters, and data stores to scale our services effectively and implement new features to drive growth. This high-visibility role offers significant growth opportunities and requires 5+ years of software development experience, including expertise in Java and Python, and 2+ years leading a major software component. The position is based in Emeryville, CA or Indianapolis, IN (hybrid) or other locations (initially remote, transitioning to hybrid). LILT offers competitive compensation, including market salary, equity, 401(k) matching, flexible time off, comprehensive medical benefits, paid parental leave, and a monthly lifestyle benefit stipend.

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

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