Software Engineer For Language Platform

Tokyo
Remote OK
Full-time
February 2, 2021

Job Description

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 of experience with full-stack web development
Experience in at least one of the following areas: data science, machine learning, NLP, linguistics, information retrieval, CAT tools, internationalization, or localization
Strong sense of project ownership and responsibility
Interest in languages/internationalization
English communication skills

Extra Skills / Experience

Excellent analytical and creative approaches to problem solving
Experience with large systems development
Experience with server/internet security
Experience with unit and end-to-end testing
Knowledge about algorithms and data structures

WOVN’s policies during COVID-19 are as follows:

- Moving to a remote work schedule from March, 2020 (still in effect)
- We are still hiring candidates from overseas, and will support their visa application. Until COVID-19 is settled and the border restriction is lifted, you can begin working remotely from abroad.

Notes

- Our office is in Tokyo, Japan. Successful applicants will need to relocate to Tokyo for this position. Working from abroad long-term is not possible.
- Applicants will be invited to complete an online test. Please let us know your email address when you apply for this position.
- We will contact successful applicants after their online test. Please be noted that we are not able to show the test score.

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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.