About DeepL

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.

The API team

Thanks to our unique neural networks, DeepL is able to deliver the world’s best translation quality. Many thousands of users use our API to bring our translations into their applications, translating billions of characters per month.

The API team’s mission is to make our AI easy to use by providing open source libraries in a wide range of programming languages - to date we have released client libraries for Python, .NET, Node.js, PHP, and Java. You can find more on our GitHub: https://github.com/DeepLcom.

The API team works closely with our core product team and solution consultants to bring our API customers our latest innovations to solve their business needs, and is a highly experienced cross-functional team based in our newly formed NY tech hub.

The team builds our backend services (C#, ASP.NET Core), adding exciting new API features. The team is also responsible for developing our client libraries and making sure that they deliver value to the developer community.

What you will do

As Engineering Manager, you lead the API team to excellence through:

- People Leadership: Inspire, develop, recruit, and motivate a cross-functional engineering team of 5-8 engineers. Conduct regular 1:1s with team members, set individual development or improvement plans, and foster a healthy, non-retaliatory feedback culture within the team.

- Delivery management: Ensure timely delivery of new features, maintain existing ones, and establish high engineering excellence metrics. Collaborating with key stakeholders, representing the team’s engineering perspective on the feasibility, cost-effectiveness, scalability, and time-to-market aspects of new or existing services and products.

- Technical guidance: Actively contribute to resolving technical issues and challenges by participating in code reviews, system design discussions, and occasionally engaging in hands-on coding to support team members. Actively participate in building and maintaining the technical roadmap, and take ownership of technical incident management.

- Managing growth: You derive satisfaction from navigating change and collaboratively discovering innovative solutions with your team and various stakeholders within a dynamic and evolving environment.

- Strategic Leadership: Responsibility includes guiding the strategic direction of the team's engagements and collaborating with stakeholders, partnering with a member of the Product Management team to jointly oversee the team’s strategy, quarterly goals, and business-technical metrics.

Skills you will need in this role

- Hands-on experience in software development and architecture at scale

- A Proven track record of leading and scaling product development teams

- Strong understanding of software delivery methodologies and ability to improve predictability, velocity and quality of software delivery

- Experience collaborating with non-technical stakeholders in a b2b environment

- Ability to adapt easily to new environments and technologies in a scaling and rapidly changing environment

- Excellent communication skills in English with a strong sense of empathy and a solutions-oriented mindset

- In person collaboration Comfortable with a hybrid working model and able to come into our New York office regularly (3x per week). This is important in order to build a strong collaborative culture within our NY hub.

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 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.

- Competitive salary, high-growth scale-up: We offer a competitive salary, stock options, and the experience of a fast-growing scale-up. We've doubled in size year-over-year, so come and be part of our US story, where your contributions not only add up–they multiply.

- 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 makes us better together.

- Hybrid work, flexible hours: We offer a hybrid work schedule, working several days in the office each 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.

- 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.

- Comprehensive health insurance: Your health comes first. With our comprehensive insurance, we'll make sure you're covered from head to toe.

- 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.

Salary Range

Please note: This is an exempt position. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience and location.

Base Salary Range: $200k-250k+ Annually

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