Senior Sofware Engineer; Localization
Location: Town of Belgium
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About this team and role:
The Localization Team manages the infrastructure that powers localization across all Mozilla products and services, and supports our global community of volunteer localize rs. As a Senior Engineer, you’ll contribute to a range of Mozilla localization projects and technologies — from Pontoon, our Django‑based Translation Management System, to open source libraries like moz‑l10n. You’ll also engage with development of standards such as Unicode Message Format and work on internationalization features that shape the experience of Firefox and other Mozilla products.
You’ll contribute to architectural discussions and help drive feature development within the team. At Mozilla, Senior Engineers are expected to work independently on well‑defined projects, collaborate closely with peers, and play a key role in delivering high‑quality software that advances the team’s goals and Mozilla’s mission.
What you’ll do:- Collaborate with engineers and program managers to design and implement new Pontoon features, across both the front‑end and back‑end.
- Improve internationalization within the Firefox codebase to make features more adaptable and accessible across languages and regions.
- Contribute to discussions shaping Mozilla’s positions on internationalization and localization standards.
- Engage with our community of volunteer developers and localize rs to support and guide Mozilla’s localization efforts.
- Collaborate effectively with teammates and internal clients across regions and time zones.
- Solid understanding of web technologies, APIs, and modern development workflows.
- Experience with internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) concepts, tools, or workflows.
- Ability to collaborate effectively in a distributed team, across time zones and disciplines.
- Excellent communication skills, with an emphasis on clarity and working across technical and non‑technical roles.
- Commitment to our values:
- Being relationship‑minded
- Having grit
- Fluency in another language and understanding of linguistic diversity (e.g., grammar, plurals, text direction, and cultural conventions).
- Experience with open source development practices and community collaboration.
- Programming experience in Rust and C++.
- Generous performance‑based bonus plans to all eligible employees – we share in our success as one team
- Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)
- Quarterly all‑company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together
- Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday
- One‑time home office stipend
- Quarterly well‑being stipend
- Considerable paid parental leave
- Employee referral bonus program
- Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. – varies by country)
Mozilla exists to build the Internet as a public resource accessible to all because we believe that open and free is better than closed and controlled. When you work at Mozilla, you give yourself a chance to make a difference in the lives of Web users everywhere. And you give us a chance to make a difference in your life every single day.
Join us to work on the Web as the platform and help create more opportunity and innovation for everyone online.
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