deepl - Engineering Manager | Enterprise Acceleration
Responsibilities
• Own the engineering delivery of the team — set the pace, hold the bar, and remove blockers to ensure consistent, predictable output across active development and ongoing system ownership. • Partner with Product and commercial stakeholders to define and maintain a prioritised roadmap, balancing strategic product investment against the steady-state ownership of a critical internal tooling estate. • Build and develop a high-performing team — hire deliberately, onboard engineers with care, grow talent through structured development conversations, and manage performance directly when needed. • Represent your team's delivery health and technical direction to senior stakeholders across the business, establishing yourself as a credible engineering partner to leadership. • Maintain technical engagement at the right level: make sound architectural trade-off decisions, enable your engineers to do their best work, and stay close enough to the system to identify risk early. • Drive cross-functional alignment across GTM, Sales, Finance, Product, and platform engineering — build the working relationships that reduce friction and unlock fast, independent delivery. • Shape the team's operating cadence — ceremonies, planning, feedback loops — in a way that matches the pace and complexity of the work without adding unnecessary overhead. • Identify and escalate risks early, with a clear point of view on what needs to change. • Qualities We Look For • Proven track record as an Engineering Manager with direct line management of engineers building complex software products in a fast-moving environment. • Strong delivery instincts — you have established or rebuilt delivery cadences on teams that needed them, and you know how to maintain velocity when priorities shift. • Technical credibility: you engage comfortably in architectural and system design conversations, your engineers trust your technical judgement, and you are not a pure process manager. • Experience navigating cross-functional stakeholder complexity — you translate engineering trade-offs into commercial language and push back constructively on scope creep. • A thoughtful, deliberate approach to people leadership — you hire with intention, develop engineers systematically, and address underperformance with directness and care. • Comfort managing concurrent workstreams of different types — you can hold both active product development and ongoing system maintenance without either drifting, and you make deliberate trade-off decisions when priorities compete. • Comfort operating with ambiguity and evolving context — you bring structure without imposing rigidity. • A background in B2B SaaS or any environment where engineering decisions have direct commercial or operational impact is welcome.
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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