Senior Backend Engineer, Lilt
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AI solution for enterprise translation and content creation
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AI solution for enterprise translation and content creation
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ equity
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the world's information accessible to everyone regardless of where they were born or which language they speak.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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
Desirable
- 3+ years of experience with Okapi framework and file filters: XLIFF, XLIFF2, XML, JSON, Markdown, TTX filters, etc
What the job involves
- 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. Since the translation workforce is distributed worldwide, there are interesting cloud engineering problems to solve
- We have a strong preference for building our own backend technology, so you’ll be implementing and working with the latest natural language processing (NLP) techniques and ideas
- 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
Application process
- Authorization to work in Germany is a precondition of employment
Our take
Widely available tools like Google Translate are not fit for complex, operationally intense processes that require expert translations. Manual methods of yesterday can't scale with the volume of digital information produced in the world today. Lilt works with companies, schools, and government agencies to provide AI-powered enterprise language translation. Lilt’s platform combines a translation management system and neural machine translation with human language experts to create a “human-in-the-loop” approach.
While companies like AI Translate offer intelligent machine translations, they still have linguists fine-tune and correct the texts afterward. With the Lilt platform, AI and humans work in collaboration through the text together, with the AI making real-time sentence suggestions and the linguist reviewing them immediately. This collaboration creates 3-5x better efficiency compared with traditional human-only translation services, aiding in Lilt's substantial rounds of funding.
Clients such as Asics, Canva, and Digital Ocean use Lilt technology for urgent campaigns and large-scale localisation projects. Recently, Lilt launched its V3.5 translation models, which improve quality by 15% to 20%, significantly enhancing translation accuracy and efficiency. Additionally, Lilt appointed a new Chief Revenue Officer to propel growth and scale, emphasising its commitment to expanding its market presence and improving its services further.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Apr 2022
$55m
SERIES C
May 2020
$25m
SERIES B
Total funding: $91.9m
Company benefits
- Compensation: 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
Company values
- Work together, win together - We collaborate to amplify the impact of our team and our work
- Find a way or make one - Own it, solve it
- Stay humble, keep learning - Lifelong learning
- Quicker than they expect - We have a bias for action
- Operate with excellence - Excellence comes from deliberate investment of effort and time
Company HQ
Emeryville, CA
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Leadership
John DeNero
(Chief Scientist)Earned a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Previously Teaching Professor at UC Berkeley for 7 years and Senior Research Scientist at Google for 4 years.
Spence Green
(CEO)Earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. Previously Research Assistant - Computer Science at Stanford University for 6 years and Fellow at XSeed Capital for 1 year.
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