Meet DeepL
DeepL is a global communications platform powered by Language AI. Since 2017, we’ve been on a mission to break down language barriers. Our human-sounding translations and intelligent writing suggestions are designed with enterprise security in mind. Today, they enable over 100,000 businesses to transform communications, reach new markets, and improve productivity. And, empower millions of individuals worldwide to make sense of the world and express their ideas.
Our goal is to become the global leader in Language AI, building products that drive better communication, foster connections, and make a real-life impact. To achieve this, we need talented individuals like you to join our exciting journey. If you're ready to work with a dynamic team and build your career in the fast-moving AI space, DeepL is your next destination.
What Sets Us Apart
What sets us apart is our blend of modern technology, competitive benefits, and an open, welcoming work culture that enables our people to thrive. When we share what it's like to work at DeepL, the reactions are overwhelmingly positive. This may be because of our products that have helped countless people worldwide or our shared mission to improve communication for individuals and businesses, bringing cultures closer together. What we know for sure is this: being part of DeepL means joining a team dedicated to innovation and employee well-being. Discover what our teams have to say about life at DeepL on LinkedIn, Instagram and our Blog.
Meet the team behind this journey
The language apps team is the team that builds the experience and workflows to enable our customers to benefit from all of our advanced translation and writing models at scale. Working across iOS, Android, Desktop and Mobile web for all of DeepLs customers ranging from students to global enterprises, our mission is to provide a unified language workspace to breakdown communication barriers and improve productivity in real life applications.
Your Responsibilities
- Facilitate the overall architecture of our web apps 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 DeepL’s frontend architecture roadmap
- Provide hands-on technical leadership on projects with a size and scope of +5 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 provide support for other senior software engineers, engineering managers and business leaders.
Qualities we look for
Must-haves
- Fullstack engineer, needs to have proven experience refactoring large frontends or similar large migrations in a leading role
- Highly proficient engineer, thought leader on frontend / web application architecture. Excellence in typescript and react frameworks are a must-have, experience in strongly typed backend languages is a plus.
- Experience initiating and driving large technical projects involving collaboration with multiple teams across an organization
- Experience with performance optimization and scaling of highly interactive web applications
- Proactive and proficient in stakeholder communication in English, ensuring clear and effective interactions
- Demonstrated ability to influence and mentor teams and individuals across multiple departments or larger organizational structures
- A drive and ability to be close to technical details where necessary, but to zoom out and coordinate where possible
Specific experience that will make you stand out from other candidates
- Experience with Next.JS
- Experience building highly interactive frontends, ideally text editors
- Experience with websockets
What We Offer
- 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.
- 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.
- Monthly full-day hacking sessions: every month, we have Hack Fridays, where you can spend your time diving into a project you're passionate about and get the opportunity to work with other teams–we value your initiatives, impact, and creativity.
- 30 days of annual leave: we value your peace of mind. With 30 days off (excluding public holidays) and access to mental health resources, we make sure you're as strong mentally as you are professionally.
- Competitive benefits: just as our team spans the globe, so does our benefits package. We've crafted it to reflect the diversity of our team and tailored it to align with your unique location, to ensure you feel supported every step of the way.
If this role and our mission resonate with you, but you're hesitant because you don't check all the boxes, don't let that hold you back. At DeepL, it's all about the value you add and the growth we can foster together. Go ahead, apply—let's discover your potential together. We can't wait to meet you!
We are an equal opportunity employer
You are welcome at DeepL for who you are—we appreciate authenticity here. Our product is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all succeed, contribute, and think forward! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our diversity that we will find the power to break down language barriers in the world.
