[Hiring] Senior Backend Engineer @Lilt

Mar 28, 2025 - Lilt is hiring a remote Senior Backend Engineer. 💸 Salary: at market salary, meaningful equity. 📍Location: USA.

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Role Description

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will work with a group of talented, mission-driven colleagues to propose ideas to define, drive, and execute projects on Lilt’s core platform–the heart of our machine translation services. You will enable customers to deliver multilingual journeys and to provide truly localized experiences. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role with enormous growth opportunities.

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.

Qualifications

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.

Requirements

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

Benefits

Compensation: At market salary, meaningful equity, 401(k) matching, and flexible time off plus company holidays.
Medical Benefits: 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.

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Senior Backend Engineer @Lilt

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Job Type full-time	Posted Mar 28, 2025

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