Principal Software Engineer | Business Technology

Europe's leading AI company since 2009, is dedicated to breaking down language barriers and bringing cultures closer together. Our expertise in AI and neural networks has enabled us to create cutting-edge communication technologies for businesses, including the acclaimed DeepL Translator which offers 30+ languages, and DeepL Write, our AI writing companion. Our core offering includes a suite of products and tools made for businesses to communicate more effectively, both internally and with their customers around the globe.

Our goal is to become the global leader in Language AI and build products that help drive better communication, drive connection, and make real-life impact. To do that, we need talented people, like you, who want to be a part of this 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.

What sets us apart

We are committed to innovation and to a nurturing work environment. Founded by developers and researchers, we spend a lot of time actively reviewing the latest trends in generative AI and software engineering. Known for pioneering AI technologies, we dive deep into cutting-edge research to create not only translations, but advanced language solutions. Combining our use of modern technology, comprehensive employee benefits with our open and welcoming work culture is what sets us apart.

When we tell people about DeepL as an employer, the reactions are overwhelmingly positive. Maybe it's because of the products that have helped countless people worldwide, or maybe it's because of our shared goal of improving communication for individuals and businesses worldwide. What we're certain of is this: being part of DeepL means joining a team committed to innovation and the well-being of its employees.

Meet the team behind this journey

You will join the Business Technology Core track, a set of teams focused on the scalability of Deepl's business model. The focus is on enabling customers to manage their accounts and subscriptions from a single licence to large enterprises with thousands of users. This requires maintaining a software landscape that owns the identity and access management, subscriptions & billing, conversion, retention optimisation and reconciliation with our financial systems. We support this infrastructure for current and future use cases for our existing products, with the aim of anticipating and accelerating the company's revenue growth expectations through technology.

Technologies we work with include: C#, gRPC, Kafka, Kubernetes, Postgres, Cassandra, Gatsby, Typescript

Requirements

What will you be doing at DeepL?

The Principal Engineer will own and drive technical decisions to ensure the scalability, reliability, availability and security of our internal systems and enterprise revenue platforms within Business Technology to build, commission and deploy the technology and data infrastructure and architecture to meet business revenue growth objectives.

By defining a path to implementation, this role should ensure that product decisions and planning are carried out in a scalable manner. The Principal will challenge implementation, ensure execution alongside management and establish a collaborative path with other tracks in the engineering organisation.

Your responsibilities

• Facilitate the overall architecture of our business systems 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 revenue data management: Data architecture, governance, data protection, etc

• 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 coach other senior software engineers, engineering managers and business leaders

Qualities we look for

• Significant experience in one or more of the following domains:

  • Identity & Access Management