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Backend Software Engineer
WelocalizeIndiaFull Time1d
Job Summary
Welocalize is a global transformation partner that accelerates the business journey of brands and companies by enabling them to reach, engage, and grow international audiences. As a Backend Software Engineer at Welocalize, you will be responsible for developing information systems, collaborating with others in a software development team, and ensuring solutions are maintainable, scalable, and tested. You will study operations, design and develop software components, and document proposed solutions. The role requires excellent problem-solving skills, proficiency in Node.js and different frameworks, and experience shipping code in an agile SDLC. Welocalize offers flexible remote work options, a growing company culture, and opportunities for professional growth.
As a trusted global transformation partner, Welocalize accelerates the global business journey by enabling brands and companies to reach, engage, and grow international audiences. Welocalize delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages with a growing network of over 400,000 in-country linguistic resources. Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-quality training data transformation solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types. Our team works across locations in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them. www.welocalize.com
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
MAIN PURPOSE OF JOB:
The Backend Software Engineer is responsible for developing information systems by studying operations, designing and developing software components, and collaborating with others in a software development team to ensure that solutions are maintainable, scalable, and tested.
MAIN DUTIES
The following is a non-exhaustive list of responsibilities and areas of ownership of a Software Engineer:
- Study information needs, systems flow, data usage, and work processes to formulate solutions.
- Collaborate with Product Management and UX personnel to understand priorities and ensure designs are refined through user testing.
- Document and demonstrate proposed solutions.
- Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, and proposed solutions.
- Implement solutions following the software development lifecycle.
- Update job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; participating in professional organizations
- Protect operations by keeping information confidential.
- Accomplish engineering and organization mission by completing work in a timely fashion.
- Support and develop software engineers by providing advice, coaching, and educational opportunities.
Education Level-
- Post-secondary degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
Experience-
- Demonstrable professional experience as the technical owner of major components or subsystems through the software development lifecycle.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Proficiency in Node.js and different frameworks such as Express, Typescript.
- Previous professional experience collaborating with business stakeholders.
- Experience shipping code in an agile SDLC.
- Previous experience in performance analysis and benchmarking.
- Able to apply continuous integration, develops, and automated testing concepts.
- Knowledge of multiple frameworks, paradigms, languages, and trends in the relevant domain.
Other relevant skills
- Strong understanding of design patterns.
- Experience in JavaScript web development with Vue.js
- Knowledge of version control systems, particularly Git.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Knowledge of asynchronous programming, queuing, cacheing, logging, security, and persistence.
- Practical knowledge of algorithms, big O complexity, and the CAP theorem.
- Able to add value to team discussions, prevent views persuasively with rational justifications, and solve disagreements constructively.
- Able to assess and evaluate 3rd party components and systems
- Able to solve technical challenges independently.
