Job Specifications
Meet DeepL
DeepL is a global communications platform powered by Language AI. Since 2017, we've been on a mission to break down language barriers. Our human-sounding translations and intelligent writing suggestions are designed with enterprise security in mind. Today, they enable over 100,000 businesses to transform communications, reach new markets, and improve productivity. And, empower millions of individuals worldwide to make sense of the world and express their ideas.
Our goal is to become the global leader in Language AI, building products that drive better communication, foster connections, and make a real-life impact. To achieve this, we need talented individuals like you to join our exciting journey. If you're ready to work with a dynamic team and build your career in the fast-moving AI space, DeepL is your next destination.
What Sets Us Apart
What sets us apart is our blend of modern technology, competitive benefits, and an open, welcoming work culture that enables our people to thrive. When we share what it's like to work at DeepL, the reactions are overwhelmingly positive. This may be because of our products that have helped countless people worldwide or our shared mission to improve communication for individuals and businesses, bringing cultures closer together. What we know for sure is this: being part of DeepL means joining a team dedicated to innovation and employee well-being. Discover what our teams have to say about life at DeepL on LinkedIn, Instagram and our Blog.
Meet the team behind this journey
You will join the Convert And Scale track, a set of teams focused on the scalability of DeepL's business model. The focus is on enabling customers to manage their accounts and subscriptions from a single licence to large enterprises with thousands of users. This requires maintaining a software landscape that owns the identity and access management, subscriptions & billing, conversion, retention optimisation and reconciliation with our financial systems. We support this infrastructure for current and future use cases for our existing products, with the aim of anticipating and accelerating the company's revenue growth expectations through technology.
Technologies we work with include: C#, gRPC, Kafka, Kubernetes, Postgres, Cassandra, Gatsby, Keycloak, Typescript
What Will You Be Doing At DeepL
As a Staff Engineer, you will be instrumental in driving cross-functional projects within the Convert and Scale organisation, collaborating closely with engineering teams and product managers. In this role, you will help shape the architectural direction of systems that underpin our account, subscription, and enterprise capabilities. Your focus will be on ensuring that our solutions are scalable, reliable, and available while adhering to the security best practices.
Additionally, you will work with engineering leadership and other principal/staff engineers to align our technical strategy with business objectives, ensuring that our initiatives support the overall vision of DeepL.
Your Responsibilities
Drive the architecture of our business systems across teams, system owners and engineers
Provide guidance on the architecture and its components through the commissioning and decommissioning of all services involved
Ownership of revenue data management: Data architecture, governance, data protection, etc
Provide hands-on technical leadership and drive projects with a size and scope of 2-3 teams
Helping teams plan and estimate activities
Mentor, develop and coach other senior software engineers, engineering managers and business leaders
Participation in our on-call rotation: You'll ensure the reliability and availability of our services by being available to join the team's shared on-call rotation as needed
Qualities we look for
Experience in one or more of the following domains:
Identity & Access Management
Fraud prevention
Payments
Monetization
Experience initiating and driving technical projects involving collaboration with multiple teams
10+ years of hands-on technical experience as an engineer, with a strong focus on business logic-intensive environments
Demonstrated ability to influence and mentor teams and individuals across multiple teams or larger organizational structures
Proactive and proficient in stakeholder communication in English, ensuring clear and effective interactions
Experience with a wide range of observability practices (SLOs, Dashboards, Alertis,..) for business critical systems
Experience with Domain Driven Design (DDD) is a plus
What We Offer
Diverse and internationally distributed team: joining our team means becoming part of a large, global community with people of more than 90 nationalities. We're more than just colleagues; we're a group of professionals with a shared mission to connect diverse cultures. Our global presence is growing, with our employees based in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, the US, and Japan, and we continue to expand our network.
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About the Company
DeepL is a global communications platform powered by Language AI. Since 2017, we’ve been on a mission to break down language barriers. Our human-sounding translations and intelligent writing suggestions are designed with enterprise security in mind. Today, they enable over 100,000 businesses to transform communications, reach new markets, and improve productivity. And, empower millions of individuals around the world to make sense of the world and express their ideas.
Join us in exploring the possibilities of Language AI!
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