The opportunity
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 human-like…
What you'll do
Own technical direction for a significant part of the Developer Experience: mandate. Identify where the biggest friction sits for our engineers, form a clear position on how to remove it, and see that work through to adoption.
Lead initiatives that lift developer productivity across multiple engineering: teams, by understanding and improving processes and tooling, and by drawing on both established software engineering practice and AI capability.
Design and build the workflows and tooling that carry a change through the: software development lifecycle, from local development through review to release.
Lead our work on AI across that lifecycle. Evaluate what genuinely helps,: build the guardrails that make it safe and useful at our scale, and be candid about what does not work.
Treat internal developers as customers and grow a community around developer: experience. Talk to them, watch where they struggle, and let evidence decide what to build and whether it landed, whether that evidence is survey data, delivery metrics or support load. Empower product teams to own their delivery journey, and turn consensus across engineering into shipped change. Much of the work at this level is influence without authority.
Define standards that hold across the track and drive migrations to them,: bringing teams along with a working path rather than a deadline.
What they're looking for
- Mentor engineers across the track and raise the technical bar of the group,: through design reviews, architecture decisions and the everyday habits that keep systems maintainable.
- Share in operating what we build, including a sustainable on call rotation: for the services and tooling other teams rely on.
- A software engineering background, in any language, with real depth in at: least one. We genuinely do not mind which: C#, Go, TypeScript and Python are all well represented here. We care that you can build software other engineers rely on, and that you can read your way into an unfamiliar codebase.
- Time in a product team, shipping to external customers. The best developer: experience work comes from people who have personally felt the pipeline they are now redesigning, and who know what a product team is actually optimising for.
