Software Engineer - Internationalization (Android)

• United States of America - North Carolina - Morrisville

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Motorola Mobility (a Lenovo Company) is one of the world’s fastest growing smartphone providers creating groundbreaking, affordable, high-quality products designed and built with the global customer in mind. Our dedicated Program Managers ensure this all happens. We are thinkers, risk-takers and problem solvers working together and with Engineers to constantly challenge the status quo. If you share our commitment to ingenuity, creativity, and innovation, we want to work with you! Explore the opportunities and apply today.

This position is part of the Android Software Platform team responsible for development of leading-edge innovative solutions, and carrier customization for mobile devices. Our Software Engineer - Internationalization is a key role that allows our global users with a natural experience using our software and products, developing both in the backend and front end user interfaces

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Lead Motorola’s internationalization area technically, determining and advocating for best internationalization practices and localizability within
  the SW developers community, promoting a culture of engineering excellence and ensuring code quality.
• Act as main point of contact within Motorola for Google and other third party partners for software internationalization regional and legal
  compliance.
• Partner with development and CxD teams in the review of features from an
  internationalization perspective, leading the design and correct implementation of internationalization standards for each target in-country
  market including: layout, renderization, libs and APIs (ICU, CLDR, minikin, libphonenumber etc.), bidirectionality (LTR/RTL), characters
  ordering, formatting (date-time, decimal separators, telephone numbers, plurals/genders), language identification (ISO 639-1 / ISO 3266-1,
  BCP 47 language tag), Unicode encoding (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32), fonts and typefaces (Unicode, Non-Unicode).
• Own the analysis and communication of the Internationalization impacts of new Android versions to the SW development teams at
  Motorola, define and implement the strategy of updates to the set of languages, countries and Keyboard IMEs (Input Method Engine) in the
  software configuration for final users at each Android version, according to market requirements.
• Prototype ideas / solutions and perform critical analysis by applying creative approaches for solving complex problems, to automate localization processes and ensure high-quality localized interfaces in all supported languages.
• Identify and understand problems from a global user's perspective.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Android & Cloud Development (Kotlin, Java, Python, Javascript)
• 4+ years of SW development experience
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Good understanding of Internationalization development (I18n) and Android framework

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Passionate about multilingual development
• Experience developing software for Bi-directional locales

• United States of America - North Carolina - Morrisville