Lilt
Senior Full Stack Engineer
$125K–$166K
Washington D.C. +2 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Location
- Washington D.C.
Boston, MA
Indianapolis, IN - Experience
- 5+ years of professional full-stack software engineering experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Requires US citizenship and residence in the United States.
About the job
Own the architecture and delivery of Lilt Converse’s real-time multilingual meeting expansion, including its translation backend, live meeting interface, and interpreter workbench.
What you'll do
- Design and build a low-latency, multi-participant translation pipeline and event-driven correction and broadcast system.
- Build meeting and interpreter interfaces that integrate with platform SDKs, and turn product requirements into scoped plans and shipped features.
- Establish testing, CI/CD, and release practices; collaborate across teams and help set engineering standards as the initiative grows.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of professional full-stack software engineering experience, including end-to-end ownership of complex real-time or streaming systems.
- Strong backend experience with REST APIs, streaming or low-latency transport, event-driven architecture, and concurrent-session state and message routing.
- Strong React/TypeScript frontend experience building complex, stateful real-time interfaces; experience integrating third-party platform SDKs or extension frameworks.
- US citizenship and residence in the United States; experience with ASR/MT/NLP or latency-sensitive ML-in-the-loop systems, ambiguous 0-to-1 planning, and validation across varied customer configurations.
Nice to have
- Experience with speech/audio pipelines, CAT tools or linguist-facing interfaces, localization/TMS workflows, or cross-platform architectures.
- Microsoft Teams app or bot development; regulated or high-security environments; mentoring engineers and setting technical standards.
Pay
$125,120 – $166,000 (base salary; posting does not specify whether this range is base salary or total pay)
Tools
REST API, WebSockets, gRPC, React/TypeScript, GitHub Actions, Teams Toolkit, Bot Framework, Azure Communication Services
AI focus
Build real-time translation systems involving streaming ASR, MT orchestration, diarization, and human review; the posting also describes AI-Review/AI-QA signals and correction workflows.
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