Senior Backend Engineer C++ (w/m/d) at DeepL

• Senior engineer with several years of relevant software development experience
• Strong proficiency in modern C++
• Solid understanding of algorithmic complexity and common data structures
• Experience of deploying software in Linux environments
• Enjoy solving difficult problems efficiently and effectively
• Curious to learn and to understand details, be it programming languages, libraries, tools or systems
• Excellent communication skills in English, knowledge of German or any other languages is a plus
• Experience working as both an individual contributor and collaborator

Ideally, you have one or more of the following qualifications

• Experience in developing web services (HTTP, gRPC, asynchronous programming, ...)
• In-depth knowledge of building and optimizing high-traffic web services for Linux
• Knowledge of other programming languages (e.g. Python, Go)
• Experience in deploying services to bare-metal Kubernetes clusters

In order for the technology to be used by millions of users, we develop high-performance backend systems that process all language-related requests. For this we rely on RPC servers and load balancers written in C++. You will join a passionate team that values secure, maintainable, modern (C++ 23) and fast code. Architecture decisions are made by the whole team in open discussions.

Your responsibilities

• Design, implement and test reliable, scalable, maintainable and efficient backend services for DeepL's products in C++
• Contribute to monitoring and debugging the services in production, e.g. by defining expressive metrics and ensuring informative logs
• Work with your team to optimize our services, e.g. by solving interesting algorithmic challenges or by improving the architecture

• Interesting and challenging software development work on a product that is already used by over 100 million people
• Code reviews and a focus on high quality
• Meaningful work at scale: We break down language barriers worldwide and bring different cultures closer together
• Experience the excitement of a rapidly growing scale-up! Over the last year we doubled in size, hiring new colleagues across UK, Germany, Poland, NL and Japan
• We’ve got your back! We are an experienced, highly committed team with transparent decision-making processes. We cherish collaboration and efficiency, but trust, empathy, inclusivity and an overall ‘human-first’ approach are just as important to us
• Flexible Work Arrangements: with office hubs in Cologne, Berlin, London, and Amsterdam, you choose where and how you work. We offer fully remote work from UK/DE/NL/PL, no strings attached – DeepL is a remote-positive company now and forever
• State of the art equipment for your workplace
• Regular innovative team-building events- internationally!