Engineering Manager, Lokalise

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Senior and Expert level
Remote in EU, UK

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Lokalise

Localization platform for agile teams

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Lokalise

Localization platform for agile teams

201-500 employees

B2BEnterpriseLanguagesInternal toolsProductivityPublishingContentCommunicationSaaSAutomation

Open for applications

Salary not provided

+ Stock Options

Senior and Expert level
Remote in EU, UK

More information about location

201-500 employees

B2BEnterpriseLanguagesInternal toolsProductivityPublishingContentCommunicationSaaSAutomation

Company mission

To eliminate the hassle of localization by providing tools to automate, integrate, and better manage your translations.

Role

Who you are

  • Recent 4+ years of experience in an Engineering Management role, preferably in SaaS products and high-growth or startup environments
  • Solid and diverse background as a software engineer/developer, to ensure a profound understanding of technical intricacies and effectively lead and guide engineering teams
  • A proven track record of managing cross-functional teams, hiring, onboarding, and professional development
  • A knack for teamwork and the ability to create and maintain a positive team culture
  • In-depth knowledge and experience of Agile processes and principles
  • Proven management ability, including strong communication (excellent English) and prioritization skills
  • Experience in planning and executing complex multi-team products, creating teams, and overseeing execution to meet commitments and deliver with predictability
  • Experience in implementing tools, processes, internal instrumentation, methodologies, and resolving blockages

Desirable

  • Work experience in the Localization industry
  • Experience in a product company during a scale-up phase

What the job involves

  • We are looking for a talented and experienced Engineering Manager to join our Engineering organization and play a pivotal role in elevating our core product to the next level by leading one of our cross-functional teams
  • Be a people manager of one cross-functional team (squad) of 5-9 Software Engineers, focused on the performance of our main product and the enablement of our other development teams
  • Work with Tech Leads, Product Managers, and Designers (Product Triad) to ensure the successful operation of cross-functional teams and effective delivery
  • Evaluate Engineers’ performance, support career plans, and define compensation plans aligned with the organization. You will spend a significant part of your time coaching and helping engineers to thrive and grow
  • Expand our impact by interviewing and hiring great Software Engineers
  • Ensure our teams are following the best software development practices, maintain the highest level of excellence, and create solutions that are easily repeatable and scalable
  • Report to Engineering Leadership and work on the planning and growth strategy of the department as needed to meet organizational needs
  • Partner with Product Management in prioritization, decision-making, and roadmapping. By providing clear visibility on effort assessments, risks, and dependencies between tasks
  • Ensure the successful execution and delivery of your teams’ tasks according to the Product Roadmap, by creating quarterly delivery plans and tracking timelines

Our take

Localization can be a headache for companies shipping products to new markets, involving lengthy manual work and often highly general tools like Excel. Add to that the complexities of updating localization strategies to align with new agile software development methods, and it can prove a real hurdle for companies looking to expand their global footprint.

Lokalise allows for localization to be centralized and knitted more tightly into the development process, anticipating pernickety issues like formatting errors thrown up if translations require more space in the target language. This is a substantial development on translation-only services, but it’s becoming an industry standard also offered by competitors like RWS and Memsource.

What will help the relatively young Lokalise compete is a 2,500+ strong customer roster, which includes major enterprises like Revolut, Virgin Mobile, and Starbucks. It’s helped Lokalise cause a stir in the industry, and with global expansion on the rise across all major sectors, it should help the company continue its already impressive growth going forwards.

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Steph

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Insights

Strong hiring activity

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-23% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Employee endorsements

Flexible working

"Working remotely means we manage our energy - not our time and so I find space for everything that matters to me while giving it my all at work...."

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Feb 2023

$61.7m

LATE VC

Dec 2021

$50m

SERIES B

Total funding: $117.8m

Company benefits

  • Coworking allowance
  • Unlimited PTO and Work-life balance
  • Health insurance
  • Top-notch tech equipment to work with
  • Parental leave
  • Personal development budget
  • Stock options
  • Fun & close-knit team, on- and offline meetings (off-sites)
  • Wellness benefits
  • 100% remote async work
  • Positive Impact (carbon-neutral company)
  • Mental health support
  • Full-time remote work
  • Company events
  • Budget for home office set-up

Company values

  • Be direct and kind. Put yourself in others' shoes.
  • Support one another. Thrive together.
  • Build competence. Keep growing.
  • Take ownership. Optimize for impact.
  • Aim high. Stay down to earth.

Company HQ

Camden, DE

Leadership

A serial co-founder and CEO, who has filled these roles at inbox.lv, Vide Infra Group, Double Coffee, Pozitel Telecom, and Roamerapp.

Has been on the boards of Forticom (where he was also CFO), OK.RU, and Open Media Group, and served as MD at KBC Securities Ukraine. Went on to co-found Megogo.net and Roamerapp, then work in business development at Apply.

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