Responsibilities

• Be an i18n evangelist at Netflix, increasing the i18n IQ of internal development and design teams
• Drive usage of ICU and CLDR standards throughout our engineering org
• Drive the i18n roadmap and communicate it to all involved               
• Work with our Product Managers to ensure product business decisions are aligned with i18n best practices
• Provide technical guidance to product and engineering partners, using your knowledge of internationalization best practices and standards            
• Work as an embedded engineer within different product teams assisting them with internationalizing code, externalizing localizable content, and improving localizability               
• Implement backend services, frontend applications, and automation tools when needed               
• Help implement i18n tools for conformance at code submission or build time               
• Develop, maintain, test, debug, and deploy i18n libraries to production software applications

Required skills

• Proven experience in i18n engineering, ideally related to web development and integrating i18n frameworks
• Extensive knowledge of software design and architecture, data structures and algorithms
• Experience in building scalable applications with high availability and performance
• Passion for contributing to open source projects ( ideally ICU and CLDR )    
• Clear communication and presentation skills
• Extensive knowledge of yaml and json, expert knowledge of Java, and associated i18n best practices for each. Node.js experience is a plus
• Extensive experience with JUnit or TestNG               
• Solid experience using standard development tools, web services, and advanced scripting skills               
• Proven expertise in externalizing localizable strings stored in databases               
• Experience with I18n tools and automation expertise               
• Experience integrating enterprise-level localization tools into build systems to facilitate continuous localization cycles               
• Thorough knowledge of Unicode design, ICU4J, CLDR, and other common i18n standards