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Senior Backend Engineer

Lilt

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Aug 12, 2025
Washington, D.C., USA • Boston, MA, US • New York, NY, USA
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LILT needs to scale its large-scale language translation system by improving its platform's backend systems, file filters, and data stores to meet the demands of global organizations and deliver seamless multilingual experiences.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of software development experience with several general purpose programming languages including Java and Python.
  • 5+ 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.
  • 5+ years of experience with Okapi framework and file filters: XLIFF, XLIFF2, XML, JSON, Markdown, TTX filters, etc.

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.

Other

  • This position can be based out of our Indianapolis, IN office and will be expected to work in the office in a hybrid capacity.
  • You must be located in, or near a Hub to be considered.
  • Authorization to work in the US is a precondition of employment.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • You must be curious, have attention to detail, be energized by a challenging entrepreneurial environment, be comfortable thinking big while also diving deep, and be open to experimenting and iterating on processes as the company grows.