Senior Backend Engineer, DeepL

• Several years of professional experience in software development
• Strong proficiency of C# and .NET Core
• Experience of server-side frameworks, preferably ASP.NET Core
• Solid understanding of computational complexity and common data structures
• Effective and pragmatic: ability to balance 'perfect' and 'good enough' depending on priorities and business impact
• Strong team player, experienced in working across: leading, contributing and collaborating
• Curious about learning and understanding technologies, whether programming languages, libraries, tools or systems
• Fluent in English. Knowledge of other languages an advantage

Desirable

• By joining our Write Tech team, you will work at the cutting edge of DeepL’s technological innovation building new LLM-based features for DeepL Write, our AI-powered writing assistant
• This team works closely with our colleagues in Research to create and integrate new features based on the models they build
• After a year in the beta testing phase, DeepL Write has now become a key part of our product offering and through your contributions to this team, you will help us to make this a world-class AI product
• You will be part of a highly motivated team that values easy to maintain and efficient code, where important design decisions are made by the whole group in open discussions
• Design, implement and maintain reliable, scalable and backend services for DeepL Write
• Closely collaborate with our Research teams to bring the new functionality of their models to our end users via new features and integrations
• Contribute to monitoring and debugging the services in production, e.g. by defining expressive metrics and ensuring expressive logs
• Collaborate across teams to define shared interfaces and ensure smooth operation in production

• Recruiter call
• Takehome coding challenge
• Conversational technical interview
• Hands/on technical interview
• Meet the team