Senior Staff Software Engineer, DeepL
Convert and Scale
2+ days a week in office
Globlal communications platform powered by Language AI
Open for applications
Globlal communications platform powered by Language AI
1001+ employees
Open for applications
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To break down language barriers for businesses and individuals around the world.
Role
Who you are
- Significant experience in one or more of the following domains: Identity & Access Management, Fraud prevention, Payments, Monetization
- Experience initiating and driving large technical projects involving collaboration with multiple teams across an organization
- 10+ years of hands-on technical experience as an engineer, including experience in large-scale organizations
- Demonstrated ability to influence and mentor teams and individuals across multiple departments 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 the job involves
- 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
- Based in out London hub, the Senior Staff Engineer will own and drive technical decisions to ensure the scalability, reliability, availability and security of our internal systems and enterprise revenue platforms within Convert And Scale to build, commission and deploy the technology and data infrastructure and architecture to meet business revenue growth objectives
- By defining a path to implementation, this role should ensure that product decisions and planning are carried out in a scalable manner
- The Senior Staff Engineer will challenge implementation, ensure execution alongside management and establish a collaborative path with other tracks in the engineering organisation
- Facilitate the overall 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 on projects with a size and scope of +7 teams
- Helping teams plan and estimate activities
- Supporting and challenging a realistic roadmap with team leads and product managers, challenging timelines and providing predictability of deliverables to the business
- Mentor, develop and coach other senior software engineers, engineering managers and business leaders
Salary benchmarks
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
103% employee growth in 12 months
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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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