Reinventing Translation – Want In?
Private Translation Cloud (PTC) is a web-based service that translates software. We started by aiming for “better than human” translation. Now that we’ve accomplished it, we’re aiming even higher to a quality that even top human translators can’t match.
Why It Matters
Software translation is hard – expensive, slow, and frustrating. That’s why it’s a great business. Mediocre machine translation doesn’t cut it, and expert human translation is still costly and often underwhelming. Many companies need a real solution to go global.
Where We Are
Our system works. Clients love it. We’ve cut translation costs from thousands to near zero, and delivery time from weeks to minutes.
Where We’re Going
A year from now, we aim for many thousands of businesses to rely on PTC. It’ll be our third big win after WPML and AI translation for WordPress. Our existing products already serve more than 250,000 happy clients. PTC is next.
We have no investors to please, no short-term goals and no presentations to prepare.
We build solid products for happy clients
The Tech
PTC runs on RoR (backend) and React (frontend). We chose RoR for its strong conventions, built-in testing, and complete framework.
The kind of problems we’re working on:
- Language patterns and how to handle them systematically
- Efficient auto-scaling for delayed-jobs workers
- Resource prioritization for live and background clients
- Automated testing for a non-deterministic system
- How to explain complex topics to non-expert users
- And much more…
Infra is on AWS ECS. It’s cost-effective and flexible for rapid development.
The Team
We’re remote, with high standards and strong collaboration. Fixed work hours mean your teammates are around when you need them. We push for excellence, learn from mistakes, and improve fast.
Everyone in our team are full-stack developers. Besides writing great code and complete tests, everyone is welcome to contribute on architecture, algorithms and workflows.
How We Work
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Daily quick syncs, with pre-written status updates
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Clear sprint objectives
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Ad-hoc demos when milestones are hit
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Transparent issue tracking instead of “status” emails
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No code reviews or QA team. We rely on linters, CI/CD, and a lot of responsibility
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We value autonomy and stay aligned as a team
