Engineering Manager | Translator Core

DeepL, Europe's leading AI company since 2017, 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 destination.

What sets us apart

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 destination.

Meet the team behind this journey

The Translator Core team develops the frontend component at the heart of DeepL’s user interface, powering the input and output text areas that millions of users worldwide rely on for their translation and rewriting needs.

Implemented in Typescript, the complex web component is embedded in our main website and desktop applications.
The team’s work is key to important company initiatives. Recently, the team worked on the successful launch of “DeepL Write”, an AI-driven product that offers advanced text rephrasing. The team’s current endeavor is the integration of Rich Text Formatting support into the text areas. We are now looking for a dedicated Engineering Manager for the Translator Core team.

Requirements

Your responsibilities

• Team Performance & Excellence: You will be responsible for the performance of the team, the timely delivery of new features, the maintenance of existing features and the overall quality of the work by the team.
• People Leadership: You’ll inspire, develop, recruit and motivate a team of cross-functional engineers (currently: web frontend and qa), which includes regular 1:1s, supporting them in their development, and establishing a healthy feedback culture.
• Team Management: Together with the Product Manager you will share responsibility for the team’s strategy, quarterly goals, business and technical metrics. You will represent the team’s engineering perspective on feasibility, scalability and reliability. You will plan and allocate the team’s resources in conjunction with your Senior Engineering Manager and Craft Leads.
• Development Process: You will ensure that the team’s development process is in great shape. You will build and maintain the technical roadmap with the team and invest time and resources in quality efforts. You will maintain an up-to-date knowledge base and documentation.
• Manage growth: You enjoy accompanying change and finding new solutions together with your team and other stakeholders in a growing and rapidly changing environment.

Qualities we look for

• Led and scaled a software engineering team (minimum 2 years experience)
• Highly experienced and talented software developer, with several years of experience working as a senior software developer
• Pragmatic problem solver who enjoys both the technical and non-technical challenges associated with the Engineering Manager responsibilities
• Excellent communication skills with a strong sense of empathy and a solution-oriented mindset
• Proficient in modern web frontend development with Typescript
• Good understanding of full-stack aspects relevant to frontend development, including networking and web API design
• Ideally some backend software development experience
• Solid understanding of computational complexity and common data structures
• University degree in computer science or mathematics or comparable experience
• Fluency in English

What we offer

• Diverse and internationally distributed team: joining our team means becoming part of a large, global community with people of more than 90 nationalities. We're more than just colleagues; we're a group of professionals with a shared mission to connect diverse cultures. Our global presen