Senior Software Engineer, Globalization
Overview:
As a key builder on Remitly's Global Experience Platform, you lead end-to-end i18n initiatives that make products globally ready. You shape the internationalization roadmap and AI-powered translation tools, partnering with Localization, Product, Design, Legal, and Engineering to raise localization quality across 18+ languages and 175+ countries. You'll drive scalable infrastructure, balance quick market launches with long-term growth, and mentor the team to delivery excellence. This role offers meaningful impact by enabling truly localized customer experiences at scale. Compensation / Benefits Flexible paid time off Health, dental, and vision 401k plan with company matching Paid parental, medical, military and family care leave Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
Responsibilities:
- Own complex, end-to-end internationalization projects and guide delivery
- Define and maintain the i18n engineering roadmap for scalability
- Lead build-or-buy decisions for AI-powered translation orchestration and governance
- Collaborate with Localization, Product, Design, Legal, Marketing, and Engineering to standardize i18n practices
- Mentor engineers through reviews, interviews, and onboarding
- Build and operate AI-enabled translation tooling and pipelines integrated with TMS and CI/CDStandardize i18n frameworks for date/time, currency, pluralization, and message formatting with static analysis
- Improve legacy translation systems and expand language coverage (RTL, bidirectional, transliteration)
Key requirements:
- 6+ years of software development with hands-on i18n/l10n experience
- Strong TypeScript/JavaScript (React or React Native) and backend language (Go, Java, Kotlin, Python)
- Experience applying AI/LLMs in production with governance on automation vs human review
- Knowledge of Unicode, ICU/CLDR, locale-aware formatting, and resource file formats
- Track record building or scaling localization systems and translation pipelines
- Clear cross-functional communication and ability to teach i18n importancecross-functional collaborationmentoring and coachingclear communicationi18n/l10n engineeringAI/LLM tooling in productiontranslation pipelines