Our Unbabel division is seeking a motivated Software Engineer to join our team, as we expand our ability to deliver seamless, scalable cross-platform translation capabilities to our enterprise partners. You'll drive forward the development, maintenance, and expansion of core backend services that power smooth, intelligent language solutions.
Responsibilities:
* Plan and implement reliable architectures and core services.
* Build, maintain, and optimize codebases in a testable and efficient manner.
* Develop, optimize, and support critical services, infrastructure, and applications in production environments.
* Help evolve our architecture for scale, resilience, and performance.
* Break down complex problems and prioritize technical initiatives with product and engineering teams.
* Champion a culture of continuous improvement, automation, code quality, and architectural best practices.
* Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver solutions aligned with rapidly changing business and technical needs.
* Respond collaboratively to platform and service challenges, employing rapid troubleshooting and prototyping when necessary.
Must Haves:
* 2+ years of backend engineering experience with Python or Go
* Experience building APIs or system integrations (REST and/or gRPC)
* Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases (e.g. Postgres, MongoDB)
* Proven ability to write clean, well-tested code; competence in test automation; familiarity with secure and maintainable architecture
* Experience working in Agile development environments
* Strong English communication skills
* Collaborative mindset with attention to detail, proactive attitude, and eagerness to learn
Nice to Haves:
* Experience with Python frameworks (FastAPI, Flask).
* Contributions to ML/NLP projects or personal projects demonstrating AI engineering capabilities.
* Familiarity with microservices architecture and Kubernetes.
* Past work building, operating, and monitoring production services.
* DevOps exposure, especially in AWS, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
* Hands-on experience instrumenting metrics and alerts (Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty).
This position offers:
* A significant role in a dynamic, well-functioning software development division with the world's largest provider of language services and technology solutions
* An opportunity to have real impact in product direction and development
* Advantages of working in a team of subject matter experts that develop cutting-edge web applications
* Significant room for growth
* Great financial rewards