2 days ago
Base Salary
$180k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own complex internationalization projects end to end, including requirements clarification, task breakdown, and delivery guidance.
- Establish the technical roadmap for internationalization engineering and make build-or-buy recommendations for AI-powered translation orchestration and governance.
- Build AI/LLM-powered translation tooling, evaluate models, design quality guardrails, and integrate solutions into production localization pipelines.
- Build and operate translation pipelines and i18n tooling integrated with translation management systems and CI/CD.
- Standardize frontend and backend internationalization frameworks for date/time, currency, pluralization, and message formatting.
- Develop static analysis, pseudo-locale testing, RTL and bidirectional language support, and transliteration tooling.
- Partner with Localization, Product, Design, Legal, Marketing, and engineering teams to establish shared internationalization standards.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, design reviews, interviews, and onboarding.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software development experience, including hands-on internationalization/localization engineering and delivery leadership for complex features.
- Strong TypeScript and JavaScript skills, including React or React Native, plus a backend language such as Go, Java, Kotlin, or Python, or a comparable ecosystem.
- Production experience applying AI and large language models, including judgment about automation versus human review.
- Working knowledge of Unicode, ICU/CLDR, locale-aware formatting, and resource file formats.
- Experience building or scaling localization systems and translation pipelines.
- Clear cross-functional communication and ability to teach teams the importance of internationalization.
- Preferred experience with production RTL/bidirectional support, localizability audits, pseudo-locale validation, translation management systems such as Lokalise, Phrase, Smartling, or Transifex, and XLIFF.
- Fintech, remittance, or regulated-industry experience is a plus.
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off.
- Health, dental, and vision coverage plus a 401k plan with company matching.
- Paid parental, medical, military, and family care leave.
- Mental health and family-forming benefits.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan and continuing education.
- Hybrid work with onsite attendance Tuesday through Thursday each week; additional onsite attendance may be required based on business needs.
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About Remitly
Remitly builds a digital remittance platform and mobile app for sending money across borders, with delivery options like bank deposit, cash pickup, and mobile wallets. It earns revenue from transfer fees and foreign-exchange spreads, serving immigrant communities and their families. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Seattle, Remitly is a public company listed on NASDAQ (ticker: RELY) with operations across major send and receive corridors worldwide.