Sr. Software Engineer - Globalization

2 Months ago • 5-10 Years • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

The Sr. Software Engineer - Globalization role involves providing application and infrastructure support for customer environments. The engineer will collaborate with other engineers across the company to plan and deploy product releases, focusing on internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) aspects. Key responsibilities include implementing i18n methods, scripting for resource file management, updating automated tests, and evangelizing i18n best practices. The job requires solid English skills and fluency in other languages is preferred. It involves a lot of working with i18n, L10n, and t19n concepts, tools, hands-on technical implementation and linguistic and cultural considerations for software.

Must have:

5-10 years experience in i18n code development.
Knowledge of i18n, L10n, and t19n fundamental concepts.
Web development experience with a mainstream web framework.
Familiarity with SQL, CSV, HTML, JSON, XML, .YML, .PROPERTIES, .STRING, .JS file usage.

Good to have:

Fluency in 2 or more Western European or East Asian languages.
Familiarity with API automation of Translation Management Systems.
Familiarity with i18n and l10n libraries, Machine Translation (MT) tools.

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Job Details

Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry-leading total spend management platform for businesses large and small. Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers. We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.

Why join Coupa?

🔹 Pioneering Technology: At Coupa, we're at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest technology to empower our customers with greater efficiency and visibility in their spend.

🔹 Collaborative Culture: We value collaboration and teamwork, and our culture is driven by transparency, openness, and a shared commitment to excellence.

🔹 Global Impact: Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other.

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The Impact of Sr. Software Engineer - Globalisation to Coupa:

At a technical level your development team will offer application and infrastructure support for customer environments. You’ll have the opportunity to collaborate across software products with engineers all over the company and globe to plan and deploy product releases.

What you will do:

Collaborate in Agile framework with Product Managers, Application Developers, Quality Engineers, Translators to iteratively add and maintain a global-ready architecture and features, with multi-region formatting, multi-language translations, and locale-specific functionality across multiple Enterprise/Web and Mobile applications
Implement Internationalisation (i18n) methods and features related to Unicode, ICU, ISO, CLDR and other i18n libraries and architecture for Ruby on Rails, Java, .Net, React JS, and provide related technical guidance for i18n development across other teams and platforms.
Scripting as needed to update and maintain integrity of resource files, while coordinating with translators to apply language quality improvements, and directly apply code-level fixes for i18n/l10n bugs from Support, Professional Services, Customers, Translators, Native/In-Country Language Quality Reviewers, etc.
Update automated tests (eg. Cucumber, Selenium, Capybara, etc.) in build/integration system, and help maintain Quality tools (Resource file syntax checks, Pseudo Locale, etc), to validate and merge latest translation updates, and manage translation history in code repository
Evangelize i18n best practices across Dev teams.

What you will bring to Coupa:

5-10 years experience in i18n code development or L10n text/string scripting/update role.
Solid English skills, and preferably fluency in 2 or more Western European or East Asian foreign languages.
Knowledge of i18n, L10n, and t19n fundamental concepts, tools, libraries, hands-on technical/code implementation, as well as linguistic and cultural considerations for software
Web development experience with a mainstream web framework such as Ruby on Rails, Java, .Net, React JS, etc.
Familiar with SQL, CSV, HTML, JSON, XML, .YML, .PROPERTIES, .STRING, .JS file usage, structure, syntax, character encoding for translation and localization use.
Familiar with API automation of Translation Management Systems (TMS), Translation Memory (TM), Term Glossary tools to connect with Dev frameworks for rapid, iterative translation updates.
Familiar with i18n and l10n libraries, Machine Translation (MT), AI and Language Operations (LangOps) tools and techniques to enhance English source quality, code-scan i18n gaps, testing i18n readiness, resource file validation, etc.Familiar with Git, Github, TeamCity, Jenkins, Jira and other integration tools, process and workflow for code check-in, review, deployment, bug tracking, etc.
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or relevant experience

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