Senior Staff Frontend Engineer

Company: Lilt Inc.
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: November 4, 2024

Job Description:

Who we areLilt is the leading AI solution for enterprise translations. Our stack made up of our Contextual AI Engine, Connector APIs, and Human Adaptive Feedback enable global organizations to adopt a true AI translation strategy, focusing on business outcomes instead of outputs. With Lilt, innovative, category-defining organizations like Intel, ASICS, WalkMe, and Canva are using AI technology to deliver multilingual, digital customer experiences at scale.Our founders, Spence and John met at Google working on Google Translate. As researchers at Stanford and Berkeley, they both worked on language technology to make information accessible to everyone. They were amazed to learn that Google Translate wasn't used for enterprise products and services inside the company and left to start a new company to address this need - Lilt.At its core, Lilt has always been a machine learning company since its incorporation on March 6, 2015. At the time, machine translation didn't meet the quality standard for enterprise translations, so Lilt assembled a cutting-edge research team tasked with closing that gap. While meeting customer demand for translation services, Lilt has prioritized investments in Large Language Models, believing that this foundation was imperative to the future of enterprise translation.Our team is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in Berlin.About Engineering at LiltLilt is a high-performance, large-scale language translation system. We invest in and prioritize workflow (i.e., usability and interface design) and backend AI systems. Since the translation workforce is distributed worldwide, there are interesting cloud engineering problems to solve. We have a strong preference for building our own backend technology, so you'll be implementing and working with the latest natural language processing (NLP) techniques and ideas.About the RoleWork from home allowed up to 3x/wk (within reasonable commuting distance to Emeryville, CA).This position is eligible for Lilt's Employee Referral Program.The Senior Staff Frontend Engineer will apply knowledge of graphic design and animation to perform the following tasks, dividing time according to the approximate percentages set out below.

• Execute graphic design tasks involve changing/adding user interface components on the dashboard, designing, and implementing a customized user interface for translators. (25%)

• Conducting meetings with managers and designers to gather business requirements and divide them into technical tasks and sub-tasks.
• Discussing building wireframes and mockups with designers to set user interface expectations corresponding to its look and functionality.
• Estimating work efforts based on complexity and time with managers and engineers for each task following agile methodologies.
• Designing and developing features for customer-facing applications including adding/ modifying content on the dashboard, adding better upload and download functionalities for all files formats to be translated, build a robust dropdown that can be filtered by making labels.
• Using advanced CSS animations or third party javaScript plugins to build animations in UI components to improve user interaction for customers from a static looking website to a more dynamic experience.
• Create graphic design templates like mockups and wireframes using Photoshop, Indesign, or Sketch to display a visual representation of the web application to help and guide engineers to understand the technical needs and develop the product. (10%)
  • Consulting with program managers and lead designers to understand their goals and research results.
  • Conducting usability testing and collect data by selecting a few customers that identify existing UI problems and improve them.
  • Creating wireframes, mocks, storyboard, flow charts using a sketch, illustrator, Photoshop to create a template for development.
  • Reviewing the design with designers and communicate the development implementation with other engineers.
  • Research graphic design industry trends and best user-centered design practices using Photoshop, CSS 3, SASS framework along with CSS media queries for desktop and mobile software responsiveness. (10%)
    • Continuously reviewing accessibility standards and guidelines which must meet Section 508 regulations.
    • Continuously reviewing and developing cutting-edge user interface designs that give users clear direction for navigation.
    • Developing better solutions to simplify complex user interaction with UI to make customers daily tasks easier.
    • Designing mocks based on different screen resolutions like desktops, tablets, and mobiles for better readability and proper adjustment of UI content and elements (cards, dropdowns, modals, sidebar navigation).
    • Once the mock designs are finished, building UI to test responsiveness on the screen using HTML, CSS 3, media queries, JSS, Sass.
    • Correcting any UI defects based on the screen resolution.
    • Collaborate with graphic designers and engineers with creative and technical problems and work with software Front End, Back End, Quality Analysts, and Product Managers to participate in collecting software user interface and user experience graphic design requirements. (10%)
      • Requirements gathering in order to document all of the end product's functionalities after a discussion with business stakeholders.
      • Conducting meetings to discuss project scope and estimate efforts by providing points that indicate the duration taken to finish the work.
      • If any feature functionality is out of scope or there are questions regarding ambiguity and code architecture, discussing it during a detailed requirement gathering phase.
      • Dividing these requirements into technical sub tasks and for development implementation.
      • Participate in Agile software methodologies for graphic design, including participating in daily standup meetings to report daily status and to bring up any matters preventing progress. (5%)
        • Participate in daily stand-up meetings with engineers, designers, and program managers to discuss the work status of the present and previous day.
        • Discuss work blockers, concerns regarding current product feature development and brainstorm ideas to resolve them.
        • Discuss new ideas for product features and provide inputs to the program manager to enhance the current product features.
        • Schedule meetings with engineers, designers, and managers to discuss specific topics that need a more detailed discussion.
        • Provide leadership and guidance to other graphic designers and UI/UX professionals to provide creative and complex technical graphic design resolutions. (20%)
          • Implementing a GIT repository where the design system lives along with StoryBook and setup packages such as typescript, lint, rollup, jest tests.
          • Developing components using React (javaScript) with storybook examples, test code for the components using HTML CSS for styling.
          • Conducting meetings with the manager, designers, and engineers to discuss design system issues and solutions.
          • Identifying action items to resolve the above problems and update the team through email, slack channel, and engineering meetings.
          • Sending weekly updates to product and engineering teams on new components and their usage.
          • Participate in system design discussions with Back End Engineers about the Application Programming Interface, and build REST-based server request/response structures. (5%)
            • Conduct meetings with engineers and discuss how to set up tables and make API calls to perform actions.
            • Build charts and document technical discussions for other engineers to understand the process of building the application.
            • Constantly communicate with engineers for design changes.
            • Define necessary data structures which are expected on the client-side to present the required information in the graphic user interface. (10%)
              • Display data on user interface based on the product requirements.
              • Create data structures including objects, arrays, sets, strings, hashmaps, binary trees.
              • Perform end-to-end testing of the software user interface, add client side unit tests to improve code coverage and ensure that other parts of the application are stable. (5%)
                • Writing unit and integration test codes for javascript functions, design system UI components to test provide an expected output based on user input.
                • Writing end to end tests that involve testing navigation to different page paths.
                • Using the Puppeteer plugin to test our application.Position requires:
                  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering management, or another engineering field.
                  • 7 years of software engineering experience.
                  • Willing to accept any reasonable combination of education and experience (M.S. + 5 yrs of exp); Exp. can be gained concurrently with master's education.
                  • Large-scale software engineering exp w/JavaScript frameworks - 4 years.
                  • Exp w/Sketch, Storybook, or Figma - 3 years.
                  • Graphic design & UI experience - 3 years.
                  • Exp. using MySQL to develop relational databases - 4 years.Apply:Apply online at or submit resume to Lilt, Greg Vincent, 2200 Powell St., Ste. 900, Emeryville, CA 94608.Authorization to work in the US is a precondition of employment.Benefits
                    • Compensation: Competitive salary, meaningful equity, 401(k) matching, and flexible time off plus company holidays.
                    • Medical Benefits: Employees receive coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus FSA/DFSA, HSA, and Commuter benefits. In addition, Lilt pays for basic life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability.
                    • Paid parental leave is provided after 6 months.
                    • Monthly lifestyle benefit stipend via the Fringe platform to allow employees to customize benefits to their lifestyle.Lilt is an equal opportunity employer. We extend equal opportunity to all individuals without regard to an individual's race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic characteristics, veteran or marital status, pregnancy, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state or federal laws. We are committed to the principles of fair employment and the elimination of all discriminatory practices.
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