Heidi Health is seeking a Senior Localisation Engineer to build and maintain the technical frameworks that enable our products to be seamlessly localised across multiple languages and regions. You will play a critical role in ensuring our software delivers a high-quality experience in every market we serve.
What You'll Do
- Design, implement, and optimise localisation workflows and automation pipelines.
- Ensure our products are technically prepared for internationalisation (i18n), covering text handling, date/time/number formats, currency, right-to-left support, and encoding standards.
- Manage and integrate localisation platforms such as Crowdin, Smartling, and other TMS solutions with our development and release processes.
- Support multiple file formats (including JSON, XML, and XLIFF) and ensure smooth integration with source control systems like Git.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, design, and QA teams to resolve localisation issues and ensure UI/UX works across languages.
- Conduct functional, linguistic, and UI testing for localised builds, troubleshooting issues like text expansion, truncation, or display errors.
- Build and maintain localisation documentation, style guides, glossaries, and best practices.
- Continuously improve localisation infrastructure for scalability, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.
What We're Looking For
- Proven experience as a localisation engineer or in a related technical role.
- Strong understanding of localisation and internationalisation principles.
- Proficiency in scripting or programming (e.g., Python, JavaScript) to automate workflows.
- Hands-on experience with localisation platforms such as Crowdin, Smartling, or comparable TMS/CAT tools.
- Familiarity with continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) and automation of localisation within build pipelines.
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to debug technical and linguistic issues.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work across teams.
- Attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality, global-ready products.
Technical Stack
- Languages: Python, JavaScript
- Formats: JSON, XML, XLIFF
- Tools: Git, Crowdin, Smartling
Team & Environment
You will partner directly with product managers, engineers, designers, and linguists to deliver a cohesive, global product experience.
Benefits & Compensation
- Flexible work with a hybrid environment.
- Additional paid day off for your birthday and wellness days.
- A generous personal development budget of $500 per annum.
- Learn from some of the best engineers and creatives, joining a diverse team.
- Become an owner, with shares (equity) in the company.
- The rare chance to create a global impact as you immerse yourself in one of the leading healthtech startups in the world.
- If you have an impact quickly, the opportunity to fast track your startup career.
Work Mode
This role offers a hybrid work mode and is open to candidates based in the USA, UK, Canada, and Europe.
Heidi Health is an equal opportunity employer.
