Weekday AI
Lead Engineering Manager
United States · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Mar 5, 2026
- Experience
- 10–12 years of overall software engineering experience; minimum experience stated as 10 years.
About the job
Leads the design and delivery of real-time stream-processing systems, backend services, and engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Architect and optimize Apache Flink pipelines and Java distributed services for performance, reliability, and scale.
- Guide technical roadmaps, collaborate across teams, and resolve production issues.
- Mentor engineers and improve engineering practices, including code quality, testing, observability, and CI/CD.
What they ask for
- Strong hands-on Apache Flink expertise, including windowing, state management, checkpoints, and event-time processing.
- Advanced Java proficiency, including concurrency, multithreading, memory management, and performance tuning.
- Experience with distributed systems, streaming architectures, messaging systems, and cloud environments.
- Proven experience leading engineering teams or owning major technical initiatives.
Nice to have
- Experience with big data ecosystems and real-time analytics platforms.
- Exposure to performance benchmarking, capacity planning, or Agile/Scrum environments.
Tools
Apache Flink, Java, Kafka, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes
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