Senior Globalization Engineer, AI-Driven i18n Platform

Remitly, Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Health, dental, vision

401k with company matching

ESPP

Continuing education

Parental, medical, military and family

Job summary

Remitly, Inc. in Seattle seeks a senior i18n engineer to drive the internationalization roadmap and deliver complex localization features across our product suite.

You will build AI-powered translation tooling, standardize i18n frameworks, and partner with Localization, Product, Design, Legal, Marketing, and Engineering to launch globally. Mentorship and RTL/bidirectional support are part of the role, with hybrid onsite expectations.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software development including hands-on i18n/l10n engineering and delivering complex features.
• Strong TypeScript/JavaScript (React/React Native) and backend skills (Go/Java/Kotlin/Python) or quick stack adaptation.
• Experience applying AI/LLMs in production with balance between automation and human review.
• Knowledge of Unicode, ICU/CLDR, locale-aware formatting, and resource file formats.
• Track record building or scaling localization systems and translation pipelines.
• Clear communication across functions and ability to teach i18n importance.

Responsibilities

• Own complex, team-level projects end to end from requirements to delivery.
• Set the technical roadmap for internationalization engineering for growth and scalability.
• Drive AI-powered translation tooling and governance layers with quality standards as content scales.
• Collaborate with Localization, Product, Design, Legal, Marketing, and Engineering to implement i18n early and adopt shared standards.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, interviews, and onboarding.
• Build and operate translation pipelines and i18n tooling integrated with TMS and CI/CD.

Skills

i18n engineering

React/JS

Go/Java/Python

AI/LLMs in prod

Unicode/ICU CLDR

Localization systems

Cross-functional comms

Tools

Lokalise

Transifex

XLIFF

Job description

Remitly, Inc. in Seattle seeks a senior i18n engineer to drive the internationalization roadmap and deliver complex localization features across our product suite.

You will build AI-powered translation tooling, standardize i18n frameworks, and partner with Localization, Product, Design, Legal, Marketing, and Engineering to launch globally. Mentorship and RTL/bidirectional support are part of the role, with hybrid onsite expectations.