Lingo.dev careers: remote jobs, culture and where they hire

Lingo.dev has raised $4.2M in total: a seed round led by Initialized Capital with Y Combinator and angel investors including the founders of Supabase and Dependabot, announced in February 2025. The founders told TechCrunch they intend to keep the lean style of their previous bootstrapped company, which had no employees beyond the two of them, only now with funding. The company is legally Replexica, Inc.

Lingo.dev is a localization engineering platform for software teams. Teams configure localization engines, stateful translation APIs that hold a glossary, brand voice rules and per-locale model preferences, and every translation is scored against the team's own criteria before it goes live. Retrieval augmented localization sends that context to the best-scoring LLM for each language pair, an edit in the code repository or CMS kicks off a pipeline, and native-speaking proofreaders approve translations where the team decides. The CLI is open source under Apache-2.0, handles 18 file formats from JSON and YAML to XLIFF, Flutter ARB and Xcode strings, and has about 5,400 GitHub stars.

The company started as Replexica at a hackathon in December 2023, where the prototype won best dev tool, found its first paying customers, went through Y Combinator's Fall 2024 batch and took the Lingo.dev name that December. It now counts hundreds of users, a CLI that runs more than 10,000 times a week and over 300 million translated words, with Mistral, Solana, SoSafe, Cal.com (36 languages), freenet, Maze and Formbricks among the customers. Lingo.dev v1.0 shipped in March 2026 with research showing a 17 to 45% cut in terminology errors from retrieval augmented localization across five LLM providers. The platform is SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and CCPA compliant.

Max Prilutskiy, CEO and co-founder. Engineering Manager at Typeform in Barcelona from 2020 to 2023, leading a frontend team, after shipping software at startups and enterprises. Co-founded and bootstrapped Notionlytics, an analytics tool for Notion used by Square, Shopify and Sequoia Capital, with no employees beyond the two founders, and sold it to an undisclosed buyer in 2024. Started coding at nine in Belarus; Master's in Computer Science from the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, plus Stanford's XINE innovation and entrepreneurship program.

Veronica Prilutskaya, CPO and co-founder. Data scientist who led AI initiatives for US consumer companies: Senior then Lead Data Scientist at Infor (2016 to 2020), Lead Data Scientist at Vention, and Senior Data Science Consultant at bitgrit in Tokyo. Co-founded Notionlytics with Max in 2021 and sold it in 2024. Competed in math contests from age four; Master's in Mathematics and Computer Science from Belarusian State University.

Lingo.dev is seven people, so everyone ships to production, talks to customers and owns a surface end to end, from CLIs to UI design to database migrations. The YC jobs page says it plainly: the founders discourage narrow, ticket-based roles and want people who take on whole problems. Engineers work directly with the founders and with the users of what they build, and the team answers support tickets and talks to users on Discord every day.

The product is a real developer tool with public traction: a Show HN that reached 89 points in June 2025, and paying customers like Mistral and Cal.com. The stack is current (Effect.ts, latest React, Cloudflare Workers) and the team uses Claude Code, MCP servers and AI agents all day to write code, review PRs and debug production. Benefits listed on the careers page: a tech allowance, a conference and learning budget, and health insurance.

Six working principles are written on the careers page: lean team with full ownership, love the craft, be ready to be wrong, ship with AI, manage yourself, and bring energy. The team "rewrites things that work if they could work better", and on being wrong: "When real usage contradicts an assumption, the assumption gets updated, not the user." On self-management: "We're all human, sometimes focus drifts. Catching it is the skill: change context, ask for help, whatever breaks the loop." And on energy: "Positivity, grit, and drive matter here as much as technical skill."

The engineering posting says the team values "computer science craft over corporate politics" and lists who should not apply: anyone looking for passive, hands-off remote work with minimal team interaction, anyone uncomfortable with uncertainty who prefers detailed specs over figuring things out, and anyone unwilling to put customer needs ahead of their preferred patterns or tools. Applications are expected to be written by the candidate: "Please don't use AI to apply. We're an AI-native company, so we'll notice if you do. We want to know how you think and write."

Lingo.dev's process has three published stages: a 30-minute coffee chat with a founder about your background and mutual fit, one or two interviews focused on depth, taste and how you think through problems (for engineers, live coding or a technical project on CS fundamentals and architecture), and a one-month paid trial working on real projects, which both sides use to decide. The content role adds a small real trial project reviewed together with your drafts, which the posting calls "the step that decides it, not the CV", and compensation is discussed on the first call. Candidates hear back within a few days at every step and are told why if the answer is no.

Engineering postings ask for 5+ years of production TypeScript and Node.js, expert React, PostgreSQL and API design experience, a CS degree or equivalent, prior remote work in distributed teams, fluent English, daily use of AI coding tools, and a side project or app that real people have used. The open application for ex-founders asks instead for a link to something you shipped and says the team does not care where you went to school, whether your company succeeded or whether you worked at a name company.