Staff Software Engineer | Console

DeepL
London
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Mentorship","Technical alignment","Stakeholder communication","Standards setting","Facilitation"]

Own the architectural direction for DeepL Console’s enterprise platform pillars, defining integration contracts, standards, and quality practices. Lead cross-team decision-making through RFCs and design documents, and reduce dependency bottlenecks with self-service integration patterns. Drive the evolution of complex systems like access control, navigation, and entitlements, and mentor engineers while partnering with product and engineering leaders to align platform roadmaps.

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DeepL
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Staff Software Engineer | Console

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Job Summary

Own the architectural direction for DeepL Console’s enterprise platform pillars, defining integration contracts, standards, and quality practices. Lead cross-team decision-making through RFCs and design documents, and reduce dependency bottlenecks with self-service integration patterns. Drive the evolution of complex systems like access control, navigation, and entitlements, and mentor engineers while partnering with product and engineering leaders to align platform roadmaps.
Location: London
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define and own the architectural direction for one or more Console platform pillars, including integration contracts and standards adoption.
  • •Lead architectural decision-making across Console sub-teams and product verticals, authoring RFCs and design documents.
  • •Design self-service integration patterns and governed processes to reduce coordination overhead and bottlenecks.
  • •Own the technical evolution of complex cross-cutting systems, including permission/access control, navigation/entitlements, and contract-tested interfaces.
  • •Set and maintain the engineering quality bar for Console, including DORA metric targets, contract testing standards, and progressive migration patterns; mentor engineers through reviews and guidance.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Hybrid WorkPaid LeaveHealth Insurance

Key Requirements

  • •Demonstrated ownership of cross-team platform or shared-infrastructure systems with architectural decisions other teams depend on.
  • •Strong full-stack web engineering depth across frontend and backend, with the ability to reason about integration contracts and system trade-offs.
  • •Experience building or governing access control, permissions, or identity systems in an enterprise SaaS context.
  • •Ability to achieve technical alignment across teams without line management authority through written proposals, facilitation, and clear trade-off articulation.
  • •Comfort operating in ambiguous ownership spaces by establishing clarity through documentation and shared standards.
Experience:Enterprise SaaSPlatform engineering
Skills:MentorshipTechnical alignmentStakeholder communicationStandards settingFacilitation

Company Brief

DeepL
DeepL builds Language AI products (DeepL Translator, DeepL Write, APIs and enterprise solutions) that provide high-accuracy translations and writing assistance to businesses and individuals, focusing on privacy, security and enterprise deployment.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: Cologne, Germany
Founded: 2017
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Glassdoor: 3.5
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