LILT · 4 hours ago

Senior Backend Engineer

New York, NY

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

5+ years exp

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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.

Qualification

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JavaPythonCloud-based servicesOkapi frameworkXLIFFXLIFF2XMLJSONMarkdownTTX filtersSoftware developmentLeadership experience

Required

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.

Authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment.

Preferred

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

Benefits

401(k) matching

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