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.
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
Nice to Have
- 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
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Team
Structure: LILT is a high-performance, large-scale language translation system. We invest in and prioritize workflow (i.e., usability and interface design) and backend AI systems.
Additional Information
- Authorization to work in the US is a precondition of employment.


