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As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design and implement backend services, optimize application performance, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance Smartcat's Language AI platform.
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About Smartcat

Smartcat is on a mission to become the wall-to-wall Language AI platform, addressing the diverse needs in multilingual content for various user personas within global enterprises. 

Smartcat is uniquely positioned within the $100+ billion multilingual content industry, which is currently served by tens of thousands of agencies. This results in a highly fragmented and inefficient supply chain, high costs, unacceptable turnaround times, and quality issues. Using highly qualified internal resources to translate or create multilingual content (insourcing) solves the quality problem for enterprises, but if done manually, it can't solve for scalability, high cost, and slow turnaround.

Smartcat changes the ROI equation in favor of insourcing with its Language AI platform for enterprise end-users. It delivers high-quality, instantaneous AI translations or generates new content in any language by tapping into a customer-specific multilingual content library. The AI output is further refined through human editing by the client's internal reviewers or experts from the Smartcat's embedded global marketplace of linguists and content editors. This AI output continuously improves through the editing feedback loop, ensuring consistent and customer-tailored results.

More than 1,000 global companies including ~20% of the Fortune 1,000 trust Smartcat to communicate their innovations and ideas all over the world.

As a dynamic Series C company, Smartcat is growing at 130% YoY, thanks to the high and quick ROI it delivers to global enterprises. It's well-funded by notable VCs, and is capital efficient, offering a unique blend of hyper-growth potential with downside protection and the capacity for long-term planning and strategy.

Mission

Reporting directly to the CTO, you will lead a talented team of over 20 software developers, focusing on scaling our highly successful product to meet increasing demands. This role is pivotal in guiding our engineering processes, team development, and technological advancements, ensuring our product not only meets but exceeds customer expectations during our phase of accelerated growth.

*Potential to hire at the VP level for a candidate with the right experience

Key Responsibilities

  • Drive the delivery of a high-quality product, exceeding customer expectations.
  • Collaborate with the product team to create and execute comprehensive roadmaps, ensuring top-quality implementation.
  • Proactively collaborate with customer-facing teams to reduce the number of customer-reported bugs
  • Partner with architects to transform and scale the product for 100x growth.
  • Optimise and measure engineering processes to double the team's output within the first year, while simultaneously halving the number of bugs.
  • Recruit, build, and lead a top-tier engineering team across various regions and time zones, enhancing the hiring process, offering expert technical guidance, and fostering career development.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 10 years in software development, with 5+ years in leadership managing teams of 20+ engineers.
  • 5+ years of .NET experience.
  • Proven leadership and management skills, capable of motivating and guiding teams to achieve objectives.
  • A meticulous and data-driven approach to problem-solving.
  • Experience operating with an AI first approach
  • Experience in scaling products and engineering teams during rapid growth phases.
  • Expertise in managing high-load, secure, and scalable systems, ensuring robust performance under peak demands.
  • Familiarity with performance optimization and system resilience strategies.
  • Adaptability to thrive in a high-intensity startup environment, with a commitment to continuous improvement.
  • Receptiveness to feedback and diverse viewpoints.
  • Ideally based on the East Coast
  • Demonstrated experience in working within international environments.
  • Fluency in English.

Our technologies

  • Backend: .NET Core (C#), Python
  • Frontend: Vue.js 2/3, Nuxt 3, Typescript
  • Databases: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch
  • Messaging Queue: Kafka
  • Cloud Provider: Amazon AWS
  • Monitoring & Logging: ELK (EFK), Prometheus, Grafana
Why joining Smartcat might be your best move so far
  • Fully remote team
    We are a global team of 200+ enthusiastic people spread across 30+ countries. We have been fully remote since 2020, with some locations populated with more Smartcaters than others, such as Boston, NYC, SF, the Bay Area, London, and Lisbon.
  • Innovating a $100 Billion industry
    Smartcat’s innovative approach towards multilingual content, taps into a $100B industry. Our platform enables enterprise end users to stop using traditional outsourcing methods, and start enjoying an easy-to-use, AI-powered SaaS, that delivers immediate high-quality results, at a fraction of the cost.
  • High impact role enabling innovation and inclusion in organizations
    You will enjoy building with us. You will drive changes in how an old-fashioned global language industry operates while improving how hundreds of thousands of people work and millions of people exchange knowledge and ideas worldwide. 
  • Join the rocketship to scale-up 10x and beyond together
    We are looking for someone to become an integral part of our team and play a crucial role in the most exciting part of our journey: transitioning from a post-Series C startup to a company exceeding $100M in ARR and $1B in valuation. Our journey isn’t for the faint of heart. We are growing at 130% YoY, thanks to our strong product-market fit and high-performing team, and plan to accelerate from here. 
  • Smartcat Culture: Where Diversity Meets High Performance
    At Smartcat, we are committed to building a culture that highlights respect and appreciation for each individual's unique background and perspective, while maintaining a strong focus on results and clear, honest and direct communication. We believe in welcoming everyone and fostering an inclusive environment where team members can be their authentic selves at work. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion is steadfast, and we stand firmly against discrimination and harassment.

         


Top Skills

.Net Core
Amazon Aws
C#
Elasticsearch
Elk
Grafana
Kafka
MongoDB
Postgres
Prometheus
Python

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