Senior Staff Software Engineer | Language Apps

• 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
• Participation in our on-call rotation: You'll ensure the reliability and availability of our services by being available to join the team's shared on-call rotation as needed

• 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

Helping people overcome communication barriers is the heart of what we do. Founded in Germany in 2017 by a team of engineers and researchers, DeepL has developed the world’s most accurate AI translation technology—enabling real-time, human-sounding translation.

Accessible via a web translator, browser extensions, desktop and mobile apps, and an API, DeepL supports a best-in-class translation experience in 34 languages and counting. Our 550-person team operates across four European hubs in Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, and Poland.