Senior Staff Software Engineer | Convert and Scale

Senior Staff Software Engineer | Convert and Scale

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, while empowering millions of individuals worldwide to make sense of the world and express their ideas.

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—our products have helped countless people worldwide and our shared mission to improve communication for individuals and businesses brings cultures closer together.

Meet the team behind this journey

We are seeking a Senior Staff Engineer who views technical leadership as the creation of leverage and enterprise‑grade trust at global scale.

Your Mission: Architecting DeepL’s Revenue Flywheel for Global Scale

As a key architect driving the Convert & Scale track, you will build the foundational business layer used by all product teams. Your work will directly enable our journey from serving individual users to managing relationships with the world’s largest enterprises, involving thousands of users, complex licensing, and multi‑layered access controls.

Your Responsibilities

• Deep Impact: Your decisions will influence our global P&L and growth trajectory.
• The Enterprise Problem: You will tackle the complexity of scaling a global SaaS platform for AI, building tools for identity, monetization, and enterprise readiness.
• Operating at AI‑Native Speed: You will enable rapid product innovation through AI coding tool integration, MCP, internal developer portals, and developer‑friendly APIs.

Qualities We Look For

• Enterprise System Design: Design, build, and ship enterprise‑grade platforms with high standards for security, reliability, and scalability.
• Core Systems Ownership: Own architecture and implementation of key services, driving strategic decisions about commissioning and decommissioning.
• Data Governance & Mastery: Own revenue data management—architecture, governance, and protection ensuring auditable global operations.
• Technical Acceleration: Provide hands‑on leadership across 7+ cross‑functional teams, mentoring engineers, managers, and product leaders.

What Defines You

• Proven Enterprise Scale: Experience with SaaS platforms at large enterprise level, understanding security, compliance, and reliability demands.
• Decade of Impact: 10+ years of technical experience driving architectural change, not just participating.
• Domain Mastery (choose one):
  • Identity & Access Management (SAML, SSO, SCIM)
  • Monetization (complex subscription & billing, payments)
  • Fraud Prevention at scale
  • Enterprise SaaS administration tooling
• Architectural Fluency: Expertise in observability (SLOs, alerting), Domain‑Driven Design, and scalable system design.
• Current Stack Context (benefit): C#, gRPC, Kafka, Kubernetes, Postgres, Cassandra, Gatsby, Keycloak, Typescript.

What We Offer

• Diverse and internationally distributed team with over 90 nationalities.
• Open communication, regular feedback, and an empathy‑driven culture.
• Hybrid work schedule with flexible hours.
• Regular in‑person team events and monthly full‑day hacking sessions.
• 30 days of annual leave plus mental health resources.
• Virtual Shares: Link your contribution directly to DeepL’s growth.
• Competitive benefits tailored to your location.

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. Bring your experience, perspectives, and background. We’re excited to meet you!

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