Lead Real-Time Translation & Live Meeting Platform

Lilt; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Parental leave

Fringe stipend

Equity

401k match

Flexible time off

Job summary

Lilt is seeking a Senior Engineer to lead the Create team driving the Converse expansion in the United States. You will own the technical roadmap for the real-time translation service and the customer-facing surfaces, architecting low-latency streaming pipelines and live meeting experiences.

You will partner with device teams to extend the architecture across platforms, define engineering standards, and guide the product from prototype to production in multilingual live meetings.

Qualifications

• Experience with cross-platform, embedded, or mobile-adjacent architectures.
• Experience with CAT tools or translation memory systems is a plus.
• Strong backend experience with REST/gRPC/WebSockets and real-time systems.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and technical roadmap for Converse expansion, including real-time translation service and live surfaces.
• Build low-latency, N-way translation pipeline (per-participant ingestion, diarization, streaming ASR, MT, broadcast).
• Develop live meeting experience (bot/agent, side panel, captions) and interpreter workbench.
• Design event-driven correction and broadcast system for multi-language meetings.
• Collaborate with Product/Design to translate PRD into technical designs and deliver on dates.
• Mentor engineers and establish engineering standards for a new product line.

Skills

Real-time systems

Full-stack development

React/TypeScript

Streaming pipelines

Mentoring

Secure environments

Platform SDKs

Teams app development

APIs & Web services

Technical leadership

Tools

gRPC

WebSockets

Teams Toolkit

Job description

Lilt is seeking a Senior Engineer to lead the Create team driving the Converse expansion in the United States. You will own the technical roadmap for the real-time translation service and the customer-facing surfaces, architecting low-latency streaming pipelines and live meeting experiences.

You will partner with device teams to extend the architecture across platforms, define engineering standards, and guide the product from prototype to production in multilingual live meetings.