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 ROLE
The 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
- Collaborate in analysis, problem definition, requirements, and solution design under the direction of senior software development team members
- 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
REQUIREMENTS
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Education
- Post-secondary degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent professional experience
- +2 years experience as a Software Engineer
- Experience
- Demonstrable professional experience implementing complex features in large software systems, following the software development lifecycle
- Experience of Agile software development practices;
- Experience shipping code in an agile SDLC
- Able to apply continuous integration, develops, and automated testing concepts
- Knowledge of paradigms, languages, and trends in the relevant domain
- Good knowledge of popular JavaScript
- Other relevant skills
- Familiarity with design patterns
- Familiarity with asynchronous programming, queuing, cacheing, logging, security, and persistence
- Awareness 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
- Problem-solving skills
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment
- Ability to work independently and as a member of a team