Who are we
Founded in 2017, Lokalise is a cloud-based translation management system that helps businesses streamline their localization processes. It provides a platform for managing translations of software, websites, mobile apps, and other digital content. Overall, Lokalise helps businesses improve their time-to-market, increase translation quality, and reduce costs associated with localization.
Location
While our company operates exclusively on a remote basis, you must reside and have the legal right to work in one of the following countries: the United Kingdom, Latvia, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Portugal, or Ireland.
About
We are looking for a Staff Frontend Engineer with a product engineering mindset who will play a key role in defining and implementing our frontend architecture. You will drive best practices in frontend development, set technical direction, and ensure we create highly scalable, maintainable, and user-centric applications. Your expertise will be instrumental in setting the vision for our UI/UX strategy and frontend technology roadmap.
You Will
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Define and drive the evolution of our frontend architecture and user experience
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Provide technical guidance and mentor other engineers on best practices in frontend architecture, design patterns, and development workflows.
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Establish and execute the frontend technology roadmap, focusing on scalability and maintainability.
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Architect and develop reusable, scalable components, frameworks, and features with a strong emphasis on code quality, performance, and accessibility.
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Define and establish coding standards, ensuring a high level of quality, security, and performance in all frontend projects.
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Act as a champion for operational and engineering excellence, identifying areas for continuous improvement and leading initiatives to address them.
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Identify and pioneer innovative solutions to enhance frontend workflow, CI/CD, and deployment processes.
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Tackle complex issues in UI performance, and accessibility to ensure seamless, high-quality user experiences.
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Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align strategies with broader product and engineering goals.
You Must Have
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A minimum of 2 years’ experience as a Staff or Lead Frontend Engineer or similar senior-level frontend engineering role.
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Hands-on technical leadership experience, providing direction and mentorship to frontend teams.
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Extensive experience with React for developing rich, interactive web applications.
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Strong skills in building and optimizing high-performance, responsive, and accessible web interfaces.
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Proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript, with a deep understanding of modern web development techniques and tools.
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Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining frontend architectures, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and performance.
- Experience in UI/UX design principles.
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Excellent analytical, strategic thinking, and problem-solving abilities.
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Excellent communication, collaboration, organizational, and time management skills.
It’s a Plus If You Have
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Experience with server-side rendering BFF framework (e.g. Remix, Next.js).
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Familiarity with cloud-based services (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Our Benefits
- Competitive salary and employee stock options plan
- Fully remote and flexible working hours
- Co-working budget
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Top-notch tech equipment for your work
- Learning & Development program
- Health insurance
- Wellness benefits
- Mental health support - every employee has access to a dedicated mental health platform
- Great startup atmosphere, team spirit, and team events
We are committed to a culture of inclusion and equal opportunities. Therefore, we welcome applications from people of all gender identities, sexual orientations, personal expressions, relationship, marital, or civil partnership statuses, racial identities, national or ethnic origins, religious beliefs, ages, and disability statuses.
Top Skills
What We Do
We work towards a world without language barriers ? Lokalise is the category leader for localization. We own the category, and we redefined it as well. We effectively changed the way teams decide and execute localization. Lokalise is the number one choice for any organization going global, and we are also a localization thought leader, pushing for education and quality in all localization aspects.
With us, customers reach a whole new audience of app users, online shoppers, web browsers, and game players by providing local experiences, in their language, no matter where in the world they are. Lokalise is not bound to specific personas. We address the needs of developers, product designers, product managers, go-to-market functions, and even internal resources localization. Our product provides a holistic journey to all localization aspects in a flexible all-in-one solution be it software localization, interpreting, document translation, machine translation, localized pricing, copywriting, local legal adjustments, and literally anything localization-related.
Why Work With Us
Our team operates like a professional sports team. We are not ninjas, rockstars, superheroes, or other solitary spotlight seekers. We are team players who excel at our roles and who challenge each other to accomplish more together than any ninja could on their own. We continuously support each other and live up to our five Lokalise values.