The opportunity
Meet DeepL DeepL is a global AI product and research company focused on building secure, intelligent solutions to complex business problems. Over 200,000 business customers and millions of individuals across 228 global markets today trust DeepL's Language AI platform for…
What they're looking for
- Strong technical foundation: Significant hands-on experience as a Senior or Staff-level backend engineer, with the depth to guide architectural discussions and earn credibility with a senior team.
- Payments domain experience: Proven hands-on experience building or managing payment gateway integrations, checkout flows, or billing infrastructure at production scale. This is non-negotiable given the team's core technical estate.
- Fraud & trust systems familiarity: Sufficient depth in fraud prevention, abuse detection, rate limiting, or bot protection to guide architectural decisions across a complex, multi-layered fraud stack.
- Distributed systems design: Proven experience designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available distributed systems in a cloud-native environment.
