Senior Software Engineer - Research Tooling

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. And, empower millions of individuals worldwide to make sense of the world and express their ideas.

Our goal is to become the global leader in Language AI, building products that drive better communication, foster connections, and make a real-life impact. To achieve this, we need talented individuals like you to join our 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 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. This may be because of our products that have helped countless people worldwide or our shared mission to improve communication for individuals and businesses, bringing cultures closer together. What we know for sure is this: being part of DeepL means joining a team dedicated to innovation and employee well-being. Discover what our teams have to say about life at DeepL on LinkedIn, Instagram and our Blog.

Research Tooling Team’s mission is to provide the tooling, services and workflows that enable our researchers to build and train cutting-edge AI models. Our services include large-scale compute & processing orchestration, managing CI/CD pipelines for our ML code base, and providing tooling and workflows for overall research productivity. We collaborate closely with technical researchers, ML & HPC Engineers and Platform teams to run thousands of model training jobs per day on one of the largest NVIDIA super compute infrastructure in Europe.

• Design and build full-stack features: You will own problems end-to-end, collaborating closely with our researchers to design, build and deliver tooling for efficient research workflows.

• Maintain and Improve Systems: Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for our ML code base and manage service deployments to ensure fast, safe, and reliable releases

• Operational Excellence: Improve observability, monitoring and automation to proactively detect and resolve incidents

• Ensure code quality and clarity: You’ll participate in thoughtful code reviews, contribute to architectural decisions, and help raise the bar for engineering excellence across the team

• Collaborate cross-functionally: You’ll work closely with researchers, ML engineers and platform teams to ensure we’re solving the right problems and delivering real value to our users

• Deep empathy for solving user problems and bringing a product-oriented mindset toward internal tools, balancing technical excellence with usability, adoption and measurable impact

• Strong software engineering skills - clean abstractions, robust data modeling, sound architectural decisions, and ability to make things scale.

• Comfortable working across the stack, even if your strengths lean more towards backend, frontend or infrastructure. Our tech stack includes Python, FastAPI, React, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes. We do not expect a one-to-one match with these technologies.

• Technical leadership, driving cross-team initiatives, mentoring peers, and setting engineering standards.

• Clear communicator, active listener, and team player. You thrive in a collaborative environment and welcome feedback.

• Eager to learn, open to new challenges, and not afraid to work with unfamiliar languages or tools when the problem demands it.

• 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 presence is growing–we've doubled in size nearly every year, with our employees based in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, the US, and Japan, and we continue to expand our network.

• Open communication, regular feedback: as a language-focused company, we value the importance of clear, honest communication. We value smooth collaboration, direct and actionable feedback, and believe that leading with empathy and growth mindset makes us better together.

• Hybrid work, flexible hours: we offer a hybrid work schedule, with team members coming into the office twice a week. This allows you to engage directly with your team and experience the unique energy of our workspace, while still enjoying the flexibility and comfort of working from home. With flexible working hours and trust in your productivity, we are in sync with your team’s general locations and time zones to foster effective and seamless collaboration.

• Virtual Shares - An ownership mindset in every role. We believe everyone should share in our success, and that’s why every employee receives Virtual Shares, linking your contribution directly to DeepL’s growth and rewarding you with a stake in our future.

• Regular in-person team events: we bond over vibrant events that are as unique as our team, from local team and business unit gatherings, to new-joiner onboardings, to company-wide events that bring us all together–literally.

• Monthly full-day hacking sessions: every month, we have Hack Fridays, where you can spend your time diving into a project you're passionate about and get the opportunity to work with other teams–we value your initiatives, impact, and creativity.

• 30 days of annual leave: we value your peace of mind. With 30 days off (excluding public holidays) and access to mental health resources, we make sure you're as strong mentally as you are professionally.

• Competitive benefits: just as our team spans the globe, so does our benefits package. We've crafted it to reflect the diversity of our team and tailored it to align with your unique location, to ensure you feel supported every step of the way.

If this role and our mission resonate with you, but you're hesitant because you don't check all the boxes, don't let that hold you back. At DeepL, it's all about the value you bring and the growth we can foster together. Go ahead, apply—let's discover your potential together. We can't wait to meet you!

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! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our diversity that we will find the power to break down language barriers in the world.