Quick Summary
Who We Are
Lokalise is an AI-powered translation and localization platform, founded in 2017, dedicated to helping businesses expand into new markets efficiently and profitably. Our platform automates workflows, integrates with over 60 tools, and empowers product teams to launch multilingual products 10x faster while reducing costs by 80%. Trusted by thousands of businesses across more than 100 countries, Lokalise enables over 25 million people worldwide to access diverse services in their native languages. With a customer-loved support team, our platform seamlessly integrates into your design and development processes, ensuring effortless scalability.
Location
This is a full-time, remote position. While Lokalise operates exclusively on a remote basis, candidates must reside and possess the legal right to work in one of the following countries: the United Kingdom, Latvia, or Spain.
Please note that we do not engage on a B2B or contractor basis, nor do we partner with search firms.
About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our Integrations domain. Our core mission is to develop the industry's most robust and scalable integrations platform, facilitating seamless data flow between Lokalise and the hundreds of essential tools our customers utilize daily, including code repositories, design tools, and content management systems.
This role extends beyond building integrations; it involves architecting a platform that streamlines customer workflows and enhances developer efficiency. As a senior team member, you will serve as a standard-setter and a force multiplier, leading by example, elevating our engineering craft, shaping technical direction, and contributing to a world-class engineering environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and Own: Lead the design, development, and long-term ownership of our core integrations platform and services, making pragmatic trade-offs between development velocity and long-term maintainability.
- Think Holistically: Go beyond code to deeply understand customer workflows and business impact, ensuring every technical decision is grounded in a clear "why" that connects your work to delivered value.
- Build the System: Champion and implement practices that enhance our entire development lifecycle, building frictionless, automated pathways to production and utilizing data (such as DORA metrics) to measurably improve delivery performance.
- Elevate the Team: Act as a force multiplier through thoughtful code reviews, mentorship, and knowledge sharing, actively raising the skill level of engineers and fostering a culture of pride in our development practices.
- Lead in AI-Powered Development: Pioneer and evangelize the use of AI development tools within the team, actively discovering and sharing workflows that accelerate organizational efficiency.
Required Skills & Experience
- Deep Technical Craft: 7+ years of experience building and running complex backend systems. Solid experience with Node.js and PHP, comfortable owning and evolving systems across a mixed stack of modern services and a PHP monolith.
- Integrations Domain Expertise: Proven track record in the integrations space, understanding patterns like webhooks, polling, message queues, and event-driven architectures, as well as challenges of API versioning and principles of building a scalable, multi-tenant integrations platform.
- Systems Thinking: Strong understanding of modern backend building blocks, including API best practices, message queues (e.g., RabbitMQ, SNS/SQS), relational data stores (e.g., PostgreSQL), and cloud services (e.g., AWS).
- High-Impact Judgment & Decision Quality: Views decision-making as a deliberate engineering practice, with a demonstrated history of making sound technical judgments through research, prototyping (PoCs), and clear written debate via technical design documents (e.g., RFCs, ADRs). Prioritizes getting it right over being right.
- Pragmatism over Dogma: Believes great engineering solves problems, viewing languages and frameworks as tools. Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and apply new technologies, comfortable context-switching between different parts of a complex system (from PHP monolith to Node.js microservices), always focusing on the right tool for the job.
- A Commitment to Quality: A belief that testing, observability, and operational excellence are fundamental to engineering craft.
- AI as a Core Competency: Demonstrated mastery of AI-powered development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) and a passion for coaching others in their use.
- Leadership and Influence: Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical ideas clearly and inspire higher standards.
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience building developer-facing APIs or SDKs.
- Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source projects.
- Familiarity with the localization domain and its unique technical challenges.
Our Benefits
- Competitive salary and employee stock options plan.
- Fully remote and flexible working hours.
- Co-working budget.
- Flexible vacation policy.
- Home office setup budget.
- Learning and development budget.
- Health insurance.
- Wellness allowance.
- Great startup culture, including regular retreats and social events.
Lokalise is committed to a culture of inclusion and equal opportunities. We welcome applications from people of all gender identities, sexual orientations, personal expressions, relationship, marital, or civil partnership statuses, racial identities, national or ethnic origins, religious beliefs, ages, and disability statuses.