Senior Backend Developer - Product Platform Team
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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.
WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN OUR TEAM:
As a Senior Software Engineer on our Product Platform Team (which is focused on our Product’s API Gateway), you will play a pivotal role in rebuilding our product’s core architecture to create a robust, easy-to-use platform. This effort will enable new use cases, drive business opportunities, and ultimately pave the way for external developers to integrate and innovate on our platform. This is an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of enhancing our platform, and designing & implementing a scalable, high performance Platform layer that powers critical features for our growing client base and new customers’ enablement. We’re looking for someone who is proactive, ready to tackle complex technical challenges, and excited to influence architectural decisions that will shape the entire product’s future.
HOW YOU’LL RAMP:
By Day 30…
- Deliver your first code to production, focusing on “platformizing” your first microservice.
- Gain a deep understanding of the existing codebase and identify areas of improvement to transform our product into a more scalable platform.
By Day 60…
- Enhance and refine our API, ensuring it meets the performance and usability needs of both internal and future external developers.
- Collaborate with team members to align on best practices for building a solid, flexible, and maintainable platform.
By Day 90…
- Become a self-sufficient contributor who can propose and drive architectural changes across multiple microservices.
- Demonstrate ownership of key platform components, proactively suggesting improvements that will position our product for long-term growth and success.
Overall Outcomes
- As a member of the Platform team, focus on enhancing the platform’s API functionality, stability, and ease of use.
- Assist product teams in modifying (or advising how to do that) their existing microservices to align with platformization efforts.
- Collaborate with the Architecture team to design and implement a more scalable and modern platform architecture.
Requirements
- 8+ years of proven professional experience as a Software Engineer, with at least 3 years in .NET and C#
- 2+ years of experience in product companies (SaaS)
- Passion and strong skill for writing clean, maintainable, and testable code and well-documented C# code
- Experience with writing and maintaining Unit tests and E2E tests
- Advanced experience with MongoDB
- Upper-intermediate or higher English proficiency (written and spoken)
- Experience with usage of the LLM-based solutions in daily workflow (Cursor, ChatGPT, CoPilot, JetBrains AI Assistant, etc).
- Strong problem-solving skills and a growth mindset
- Readiness to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment with extreme focus, a strong sense of ownership, and determination
- Openness to constructive feedback and value the ideas and opinions of others
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.
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