Senior Localization Software Engineer

Senior Localization Software Engineer

As Senior Localization Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to manage and lead a small team to localize the Alarm.com offering for international markets. In this role you will oversee the design and development of tools and processes related to string translation, both by linguists and neural machine translation (NMT) models, and oversee the implementation of C# libraries, tests, and hooks to enable engineering to write localization-friendly code. All of this should be done with an emphasis on robustness and scalability to accommodate our growing international business. This role bridges the non-engineering localization team with the multi-site, multi-domain Engineering teams. Knowledge sharing & communication, long-term planning, coordination, organization, leadership & management, and a strong sense of ownership will be key to succeeding in this job.

This position is ideal for the candidate who seeks a small, friendly company culture where one can work closely with smart and highly productive people. Getting to work with cutting edge technology to develop outstanding consumer products is the icing on the cake.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

• Collaborate with outstanding people: We have a strong focus on teamwork, and we work to create a collaborative and welcoming environment that enables our teams to excel.
• Make an immediate impact: You can expect to be given real responsibility for bringing new tools and processes to the team. You will be empowered to perform as soon as you join the team!
• Work with the latest technologies: You’ll gain exposure to a broad spectrum of IoT and SaaS technology. Our tech stack includes .NET, SQL Server, Kafka, Ember.js, Node.js, as well as native iOS and Android applications.
• Be empowered: We don’t want to micro-manage you. We barely want to tell you what to do. We want you to own stuff and bring your experience to make those products best in class.
• Focus on fun: Alarm.com places high value on our team culture. We even have a committee dedicated to hosting a stand-out holiday party, happy hours, and other fun corporate events.

WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR ALARM.COM?

• Make our product offering localization-friendly and delight our international customers and dealers
• Take part in the entire project life cycle, from requirements development to deployment with lots of cross-team collaboration.
• Exercise good judgment. Know when to work quickly, and when to build a robust solution.
• Lend your engineering skills to the Localization and Internationalization teams to help automate and streamline their workflow, a workflow that is repetitive, data intensive, and error prone. They will be grateful to have your assistance!
• Bring your ideas! We want our engineers to collaborate on product development, not blindly build to a spec.

WHAT DO YOU NEED?

We are seeking someone who has: 

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a related field or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience leading engineers, willing and capable of managing a small team
• Strong scripting, text manipulation, and regex background as this role deals with handling large amounts of data
• Strong object-oriented programming skills; C# a plus
• Experience with database design and development
• Experience with creating and maintaining unit tests

We would love if you have some of the below (but it is fine if you don’t): 

• Experience with Localization and a Translation Management System
• Experience with sed, awk, or other text processing language
• Neural machine translation (NMT) experience
• Proficiency in more than one spoken language
• Experience with JavaScript development using an established JS framework, such as Ember

WHY WORK FOR ALARM.COM?

• Collaborate with outstanding people: We hire only the best. Our standards are high and our employees enjoy working alongside other high achievers.
• Make an immediate impact: New employees can expect to be given real responsibility for bringing new technologies to the marketplace. You are empowered to perform as soon as you join the Alarm.com team!
• Gain well rounded experience: Alarm.com offers a diverse and dynamic environment where you will get the chance to work directly with executives and develop expertise across multiple areas of the business.
• Focus on fun: Alarm.com places high value on