Staff Software Engineer, DeepL

API

$150-225k

Offers Equity

PHP

Python

.NET

Java

Node.js

ASP.NET

Senior and Expert level

New York

2+ days a week in office

Globlal communications platform powered by Language AI

Job no longer available

Globlal communications platform powered by Language AI

1001+ employees

B2CB2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseLanguagesMachine LearningSaaSAPIAutomation

Job no longer available

$150-225k

Offers Equity

PHP

Python

.NET

Java

Node.js

ASP.NET

Senior and Expert level

New York

2+ days a week in office

1001+ employees

B2CB2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseLanguagesMachine LearningSaaSAPIAutomation

Company mission

To break down language barriers for businesses and individuals around the world.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Strong proficiency in backend software development with C# and ASP.NET Core
Experience with the design of Web APIs
Solid understanding of algorithmic complexity and common data structures
Effective and pragmatic; you can weigh between 'perfect' and 'good enough' depending on priorities and business impact
Proactive and proficient in stakeholder communication in English, ensuring clear and effective interactions
Experience with a wide range of observability practices (SLOs, Dashboards, Alerts,..) for business critical systems
Experience with Domain Driven Design (DDD) is a plus

What the job involves

As a Staff Software Engineer you will work with DeepL API team’s mission is to make our AI easy to use by providing open source libraries in a wide range of programming languages - to date we have released client libraries for Python, .NET, Node.js, PHP, and Java
The API team works closely with our core product team and solution consultants to bring our API customers our latest innovations to solve their business needs, and is a highly experienced cross-functional team based in our newly formed NY tech hub
The team builds our backend services (C#, ASP.NET Core), adding exciting new API features
The team is also responsible for developing our client libraries and making sure that they deliver value to the developer community
Align and influence the architectural direction with other staff and principal engineers across the business vertical
Facilitate and proactively shape the overall architecture of systems owned by API & Partnerships Tech teams
Provide hands-on technical leadership on projects with a size and scope of more than one team
Develop and maintain open-source client libraries for the DeepL API in several programming languages
Contribute to monitoring the API services in production, e.g. by defining expressive metrics and ensuring informative logs
Mentor, develop and coach other software engineers

Our take

DeepL is a deep tech company developing neural networks that help people work with languages. Committed to advancing precision and idiomatic comprehension in business translation.

Founded in 2017, DeepL quickly became a leader in language translation with its advanced generative AI model, setting new standards for accuracy and sophistication. Serving over 100,000 customers across media, education, transportation, and more, the company enhances communication efficiency across multinational teams and customer interactions via web apps, and integrated platforms, solidifying its industry position.

With funding, the launch of its new Write product, and the recent announcement of three additional languages to its platform, the company plans to expand globally, focusing on the US, Asia, and LATAM. As businesses prioritize accuracy, privacy, and security in translations, DeepL is well-positioned to meet the growing demand for specialised AI solutions in the enterprise sector.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

103% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.2)

Trustpilot (2.1)

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

May 2024

$300m

LATE VC

Jan 2023

$117.4m

LATE VC

Total funding: $417.4m

Company HQ

GE Ehrenfeld, Köln, Germany

Leadership

Jaroslaw Kutylowski

(Founder & CEO)

Originally the Head of Software Development at Andagon, before moving on to serve as CTO at Linguee - which resulted in the founding of DeepL.

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