.NET developer

Smartcat is a fully remote startup company. We are creating an operating system for the global translation industry. Our team believes that the world becomes ever-more connected and interdependent. The borders that prevent people from trading, working together, and exchanging knowledge and innovations erode over time. That is the future we want to live in. Our mission is to speed up the pace at which that happens, building the best platform for Connected Translation. We don’t believe automation will render language professionals obsolete. Instead, we place powerful software into the hands of the millions of people working to globalize their own industries, plug them into our global supply network, and enable continuous delivery of multilingual content. With tens of thousands of customers and hundreds of thousands of freelancers translating together on Smartcat, we are well on our way.

Mission

Your mission will be to maintain and improve existing functionality and develop new parts of the application.

Outcomes

• Deliver product value for our customers
• Develop parts of the application: design, refactoring, fixing bugs, and writing tests to maintain the quality and functionality of the product 
• Review code and share knowledge with the team

Requirements

• Experience in .NET development and test coverage 
• Knowledge of OOP principles and design patterns
• Experience with Database concurrency
• English: Upper-Intermediate (B2)
• A data-driven approach. Ability to justify decisions using concrete metrics
• Integrity and full commitment
• Growth mindset
• Readiness to work in an intense startup environment requiring extreme focus, a strong sense of ownership, and determination to break through
• Openness to constructive feedback and the opinions and ideas of others

Will be an advantage

• Experience with high-load systems and services 
• Knowledge of Docker and k8s 
• Experience in hosting applications on AWS and using AWS services (or other similar cloud platforms): EC2, Networking (VPC, Route 53), ELB, EKS, S3
• Understanding how DNS works
• Experience with Cloudflare
• Fullstack development experience

Our technologies

• PL: .NET Core, Vue.js
• DB: MongoDB, PostgreSQL
• Hosting in the AWS
• Elasticsearch cluster, indexes for several billion documents
• ELK (EFK) for logging, VM, Prometheus, and Grafana for metrics and monitoring

Why joining Smartcat might be your best move so far

• The ongoing rise of the content economy is causing a massive shift in the language industry. All today’s megatrends — big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning — are converging in it at lightning speed. Smartcat’s disruptive business model taps into this $50b industry with a market network where buyers and suppliers connect, collaborate, and leverage our free-to-use workflow SaaS. The next decade will be the era of market networks and reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, and we’re pioneering this global transformation in all things language-related
• You will enjoy building with us. You will drive changes in how an old-fashioned global language industry operates while improving how hundreds of thousands of people work, and millions of people exchange knowledge and ideas in the world 
• While the language industry is big and fragmented enough to keep us busy building a billion-dollar company in the next few years, we are already seeing how the network naturally expands to adjacent language and content-related verticals, expanding our TAM and making our journey even more exciting
• We are a global team of 150+ enthusiastic people, with hubs in Boston, London, and Yerevan — and our users and partners are scattered all around the globe. We’re eager to succeed and transform the world of language services for the better. We grow aggressively while preserving our culture of empathy. As diverse as we are, we love working and having fun together, and we’re sure you’ll love working with us too
• Smartcat is backed by Matrix Partners, FJ Labs, and other top VC firms focusing on SaaS and marketplace startups (you might recognize names like HubSpot, Zendesk, Uber, Stripe, RigUp, and Quora in their portfolios). This helps us innovate at a fast pace and learn from top professionals in other industries.