Senior Software Engineer, Localization Platform (Backend focused)
GetYourGuide
| Company | GetYourGuide |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Zurich |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Senior |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 15 Jun 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (greenhouse) |
Description
Change the way the world travels
Join the GetYourGuide journey to connect people with unforgettable travel experiences around the world. Millions look to us for unique activities they can trust, and it’s all powered by our commitment to make every single journey extraordinary - including yours. Ready to unlock your potential with a community of fellow explorers? Find your next role at our Berlin HQ or one of our local offices around the globe, from New York to Bangkok. Head to getyourguide.careers to take the first step.
Team mission
The Central Services group is a strategic unit that develops and maintains foundational platform capabilities essential to GetYourGuide's global operations and customer experience. This group drives efficiency and consistency across the business by centralizing critical technical services & capabilities in three key areas: visual optimization, localization, communications and merchandising. By consolidating these fundamental services, the group enables GetYourGuide to deliver relevant, seamless, localized, and visually engaging experiences to travelers worldwide while empowering internal teams with robust, scalable solutions. The Localization Platform Team builds the systems that let GetYourGuide operate as a truly global marketplace. Every translated string a traveler reads, every market we launch into, and every piece of content that reaches a non-English-speaking customer flows through the platform the team owns. We provide the tools, pipelines, and infrastructure that turn source content into high-quality localized content at scale, and the framework that turns a decision to launch in a new market into a repeatable, low-risk rollout. We build internal tooling & capabilities for localization & multi-cluster teams to move fast and at scale. Our mission is to make localization a strategic capability rather than a per-team problem, so that any product team at GetYourGuide can ship in any language, in any market, without each team having to solve translation themselves.
Your mission
Work in a cross-functional mission team with highly skilled engineers, product, and data
Continuously improve our code base, systems and processes
Design and develop efficient solutions that can continue to scale
Help to enable your team to iterate fast and learn about our customers by designing, launching and iterating on experiments, internal solutions and user capabilities
Your toolkit
6+ years of software development experience
High proficiency in Java and Spring Boot
Experience designing architecture and deployment of web applications & services
Experience with distributed systems and asynchronous messaging
Experience in operating at scale, CI/CD pipelines and a cloud DevOps / infrastructure mindset
Experience with stakeholder management, technical leadership and cross-team collaboration
Ability to turn ideas into fast, reliable, and maintainable code
Positive, proactive team player who is passionate about their craft
Customer-centric prioritization and data-driven decision-making
Hands-on experience leveraging and experimenting with AI
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to others
Extras that give you an edge
Experience developing internal SDKs and libraries, providing API documentation and developer tooling for other internal teams.
Experience with Localization platforms and tools
Experience with GraphQL ecosystems
Experience with SLO/SLA management and Platform Reliability
Experience with security and scalability of asynchronous flows
Experience in migrating a monolithic application to a services-oriented architecture.
Prior experience working in the e-commerce space
Prior experience in start-up environment
How we’ll make your career journey extraordinary
Annual personal growth budget and mentorship programs for continu
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