Senior Engineering Manager | DeepL Agent

Senior Engineering Manager | DeepL Agent

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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. These products enable over 100,000 businesses to transform communications, reach new markets, and improve productivity, while empowering millions of individuals to make sense of the world and express their ideas.

Our Vision

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.

Meet the team behind this journey

AI is at the forefront of innovation at DeepL, responsible for transforming the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence into tangible, high‑impact products. We are a dedicated group of researchers, engineers, and product visionaries working to solve some of the most challenging problems in AI.

Your responsibilities

• Delivery & Excellence: Collaborate with key stakeholders, represent the team’s engineering perspective on feasibility, cost‑effectiveness, scalability, and time‑to‑market aspects of new or existing services and products. Ensure roadmaps align with priorities, new features are appropriately broken down for regular and timely delivery, maintain existing ones, and establish high engineering excellence metrics. Provide strong technical oversight by actively contributing to resolving technical issues and challenges, participating in code reviews, system design discussions, and occasionally engaging in hands‑on coding to support team members. Drive continuous improvement of the team’s processes, practices and technology to sustain high‑pace, high‑quality delivery.
• People Leadership: Inspire, develop, recruit, and motivate a cross‑functional engineering team. Conduct regular 1:1s with team members, set individual development or improvement plans, and foster a healthy, non‑retaliatory feedback culture.
• Team Management: Partner with Product Management to jointly oversee the team’s strategy, quarterly goals, and business‑technical metrics. Optimize the development process methodology, build and maintain the technical roadmap, and take ownership of technical incident management. Allocate resources for quality efforts, maintain knowledge bases and documentation for the team’s services, and coordinate planning with Senior Engineering Managers and Craft Leads.
• Manage growth: Navigate change and collaboratively discover innovative solutions with your team and various stakeholders within a dynamic and evolving environment.
• Strategic Leadership: Guide the strategic direction of the team’s engagements, collaborating with stakeholders. This role requires a deep understanding of technical architecture, potential challenges, and aligning the team’s work with broader organizational goals.

Qualities we look for

• Proven Scale‑Up Experience: Track record of scaling an engineering organization, ideally one focused on machine learning or AI products, through a high‑growth phase.
• Product and Research Acumen: Owned the delivery of a business‑critical, AI‑powered product and partnered with product managers and researchers to navigate the path from prototype to production.
• Deep Technical Credibility: Technical depth to lead and guide senior engineers working on complex AI systems, with an understanding of the machine learning development lifecycle.
• Leadership, Not Just Management: Immediate, experienced leadership to navigate the unique challenges of applied research and development. Not suitable for first‑time managers.
• AI Domain Expertise: Demonstrable experience in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, LLMs, or another major AI field.
• Excellent communication skills in English with a strong sense of empathy and a solutions‑oriented mindset.

What we offer

• Diverse and internationally distributed team: More than 90 nationalities across the UK, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, US, and Japan.
• Open communication, regular feedback: Clear, honest communication and direct, actionable feedback.
• Hybrid work, flexible hours: Hybrid schedule with office attendance twice a week and flexible working hours.
• Regular in‑person team events: Vivid events spanning local, business unit, and company‑wide gatherings.
• Monthly full‑day hacking sessions: Hack Fridays allow you to dive into projects you’re passionate about and collaborate with other teams.
• 30 days of annual leave: 30 days off (excluding public holidays) and access to mental health resources.
• Competitive benefits: Benefits tailored to reflect the diversity and location of each team member.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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. Bring us your personal experience, perspectives, and background. It’s in our diversity that we will find the power to break down language barriers in the world.

Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level

Employment type: Full‑time

Job function: Analyst and Information Technology

Industries: Software Development