Backend Engineer for Language Platform
- Tokyo
- Partial Remote
- Full-time
- December 23, 2023
Job Details
We offer a website localization service “WOVN” to users who want to provide their website in multiple languages.
We strive to provide the simplest and most powerful solution to our users, without compromising on features. Quality and utility are of the utmost importance to us. This means providing a top-class experience for our users that is easy to use.
You will be joining WTP (WOVN Translation Platform), the team in charge of the interface between our core product and third-party machine translation providers. Responsibilities include pre and post-processing texts for translation, implementing and maintaining translation-related features, and ensuring MT service quality and reliability. Members are expected to be full stack: mostly backend with Ruby on Rails but also some frontend with JavaScript and Vue.js. Understanding of areas like CAT tools, linguistics, NLP, data analysis, and information retrieval is also required.
We are looking for people who are flexible and highly skilled, with an interest in languages and other cultures.
Technology Stack
Ruby on Rails
Vue.js
TypeScript
MongoDB
Amazon Aurora
Redis
Fastly
CircleCI
Jenkins
Required Skills/Experience
3+ years experience with web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails or similar
Understanding/interest in machine learning, NLP, linguistics, information retrieval, internationalization, or localization
Experience with noSQL databases and/or relational database architecture
Strong sense of project ownership and responsibility
Familiar with cloud technologies such as AWS and development/deployment using cloud infrastructure
Interest in languages/internationalization
English communication skills
Extra Skills
Excellent analytical and creative approaches to problem solving
Experience with large systems development
Experience with unit and end-to-end testing
Knowledge about algorithms and data structures
About Wovn Technologies
We provide a website localization service ”WOVN” to the users who want to provide their services in multiple languages. We strive to provide the simplest and most powerful solution to our users, without compromising on features. Quality and utility are of the utmost importance to us. This means providing a top-class experience for our users that is easy to use.
80% of our engineers are from abroad and they improve themselves by encouraging each other. We are looking for an engineer who is motivated for self growth and for developing a product which will have a huge impact on society.
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