Software Engineer II - Internationalisation Platform

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The i18n Platform team owns all the ways we create, process and deliver internationalisation features for our users at Klaviyo. As a Software Engineer on the team, you will be involved in how we manage translations, deliver new localisation features, and improve our internationalisation processes.
You can look forward to being a part of a highly technical team with significant domain expertise. We oversee tools and services that are leveraged across the organization from the frontend UI to backend data. The team also owns and orchestrates several services to manage the pipeline of translations with our localisation team.
As we look toward the next 6-12 months, we aim to focus on delivering translation capabilities across the different channels we support in sending messaging to customers.
How You Will Make a Difference:

• You will collaborate closely with other i18n Platform team members to help build the best in class internationalisation features for our end customers and engineers.
• You will be responsible for implementing new functionality into complex frontend systems.
• You will be working closely with engineers from other teams across Klaviyo to bring internationalisation processes and features to their code.
• You will be an active participant in all team processes including standups, groomings, retros, on call, and more.
• You will help interview new engineering team members as we continue to grow our organization.

What we are looking for

• 2-5 years of experience in a software engineering discipline
• Experience with full stack application development
• Experience working with both monolithic and microservices architectures
• Experience with database design that can withstand high query volumes
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience debugging performance issues and improving application performance
• An interest and aptitude for collaboration across teams and disciplines
• An understanding of challenges in developing software across multiple languages and catering to non-English speaking users
• Thrives in a fast paced, customer focused, and strategic environment.

Nice to Have

• Experience creating new services with scalability in mind. Exposure to large-scale system design
• Experience with AWS or any similar cloud provider
• Communication domain experience

Technologies we use (not exhaustive):

• React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• Babel, Webpack, Eslint, Prettier
• REST, GraphQL, JSON Schema, and JSON:API
• CDNs (Fastly, Cloudflare)
• BuildKite
• MySQL, Redis, Pulsar
• Python, Django, Go, React, RabbitMQ, Celery, MySQL, DynamoDB, Cassandra, Redis
• Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, Aurora, etc.), Terraform, Kubernetes, Splunk, Jenkins, Grafana, and other modern DevOps tools

Our salary range reflects the cost of labour in the country where the job post is advertised. The base salary offered for this position is determined by several factors, including the applicant's job-related skills, relevant experience, education or training, and work location.
In addition to base salary, our total compensation package may include participation in the company's annual cash bonus plan, variable compensation (OTE) for sales and customer success roles, equity, sign-on payments, and a comprehensive range of health, welfare, and wellbeing benefits based on eligibility. Please visit Klaviyo Rewards - Global Benefits to find out more about our Total Rewards package.
Your recruiter can provide more details about the specific salary/OTE range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Base Pay Range in Local Currency:
$120,000 - $180,000 USD
Get to Know Klaviyo
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