deepl - Staff Software Engineer | Console
Responsibilities
• Define and own the architectural direction for one or more of Console's platform pillars, setting integration contracts, driving standards adoption, and ensuring consistency across the teams that build on top of our shared platform • Lead architectural decision-making across Console's sub-teams and product verticals, authoring RFCs and design documents that are adopted across engineering and shape how DeepL builds logged-in product surfaces • Reduce coordination overhead between Console and dependent product teams by designing self-service integration patterns, documented contracts, and governed processes that remove Console as a delivery bottleneck • Own the technical evolution of Console's most complex cross-cutting systems, including permission and access control infrastructure, navigation and entitlements architecture, and the migration path from implicit to contract-tested service interfaces • Partner with engineering managers and product leads across product verticals to align on platform capability roadmaps, ensuring Console's architecture enables rather than constrains their delivery • Set and maintain the engineering quality bar for Console's platform, defining and championing DORA metric targets, contract testing standards, feature flag practices, and progressive migration patterns across the team • Mentor and develop engineers across Console sub-teams, providing architectural guidance, conducting design reviews, and raising the team's collective technical ceiling • QUALITIES WE LOOK FOR • Demonstrated ownership of cross-team platform or shared-infrastructure systems, with architectural decisions that other engineering teams depended on and adopted • Strong full-stack web engineering depth spanning frontend and backend, and the ability to reason about integration contracts and system-level trade-offs across distributed web architectures • A track record of achieving technical alignment across teams without line management authority, through written proposals, structured facilitation, and clear articulation of trade-offs • Experience building or governing access control, permissions, or identity systems in an enterprise SaaS context, including an understanding of the commercial and security implications of these decisions • Comfort operating in genuinely ambiguous ownership spaces: identifying where architectural authority sits, stepping into gaps, and establishing clarity through documentation and shared standards • Evidence of force multiplication, measurably improving the engineering capability of the people around you through mentorship, standards-setting, or architectural work that reduces others' complexity
Benefits
• 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–we've doubled in size nearly every year, with our employees based in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, the US, and Japan, and we continue to expand our network. • Open communication, regular feedback: as a language-focused company, we value the importance of clear, honest communication. We value smooth collaboration, direct and actionable feedback, and believe that leading with empathy and growth mindset makes us better together. • Hybrid work, flexible hours: we offer a hybrid work schedule, with team members coming into the office twice a week. This allows you to engage directly with your team and experience the unique energy of our workspace, while still enjoying the flexibility and comfort of working from home. With flexible working hours and trust in your productivity, we are in sync with your team’s general locations and time zones to foster effective and seamless collaboration. • Virtual Shares - An ownership mindset in every role. We believe everyone should share in our success, and that’s why every employee receives Virtual Shares, linking your contribution directly to DeepL’s growth and rewarding you with a stake in our future. • Regular in-person team events: we bond over vibrant events that are as unique as our team, from local team and business unit gatherings, to new-joiner onboardings, to company-wide events that bring us all together–literally.
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