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 human-like translation, improved writing and real-time voice translation. Founded in 2017 by CEO Jaroslaw “Jarek” Kutylowski, DeepL now has around 1,000 passionate employees and is supported by world-renowned investors including Benchmark, IVP, and Index Ventures.
Our goal is to become the global leader in trusted, intelligent AI technology, building products that drive better communication, foster connections, and create a meaningful impact.
What sets us apart
What sets us apart is our blend of cutting-edge AI technology, meaningful work, and a culture where people truly thrive. We’re a team of innovators, researchers, and creators driven by a shared purpose to unlock human potential by making work simpler, smarter, and more connected.
Meet the Team
The Acceleration team is a software engineering function within DeepL's Enterprise organisation, responsible for the internal platforms and automation that power DeepL's commercial operations. We own the systems that keep our commercial workflows running reliably, and we build the tooling that lets teams across the business move faster and operate more independently. We work closely with GTM, Sales, Finance, Product, and platform engineering, and we hold a high bar for quality in a domain where reliability and data integrity matter.
Your Responsibilities
- Own the engineering delivery of the team — set the pace, hold the bar, and remove blockers to ensure consistent, predictable output across active development and ongoing system ownership.
- Partner with Product and commercial stakeholders to define and maintain a prioritised roadmap, balancing strategic product investment against the steady-state ownership of a critical internal tooling estate.
- Build and develop a high-performing team — hire deliberately, onboard engineers with care, grow talent through structured development conversations, and manage performance directly when needed.
- Represent your team's delivery health and technical direction to senior stakeholders across the business, establishing yourself as a credible engineering partner to leadership.
- Maintain technical engagement at the right level: make sound architectural trade-off decisions, enable your engineers to do their best work, and stay close enough to the system to identify risk early.
- Drive cross-functional alignment across GTM, Sales, Finance, Product, and platform engineering — build the working relationships that reduce friction and unlock fast, independent delivery.
- Shape the team's operating cadence — ceremonies, planning, feedback loops — in a way that matches the pace and complexity of the work without adding unnecessary overhead.
- Identify and escalate risks early, with a clear point of view on what needs to change.
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.
- Open communication, regular feedback: 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. With flexible working hours and trust in your productivity, we are in sync with your team’s general locations and time zones.
- Virtual Shares: An ownership mindset in every role. 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.
- 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.
- 30 days of annual leave: we value your peace of mind. With 30 days off (excluding public holidays) and access to mental health resources.
- Competitive benefits: we've crafted our benefits package to reflect the diversity of our team and tailored it to align with your unique location.
Qualities We Look For
- Proven track record as an Engineering Manager with direct line management of engineers building complex software products in a fast-moving environment.
- Strong delivery instincts — you have established or rebuilt delivery cadences on teams that needed them, and you know how to maintain velocity when priorities shift.
- Technical credibility: you engage comfortably in architectural and system design conversations, your engineers trust your technical judgement, and you are not a pure process manager.
- Experience navigating cross-functional stakeholder complexity — you translate engineering trade-offs into commercial language and push back constructively on scope creep.
- A thoughtful, deliberate approach to people leadership — you hire with intention, develop engineers systematically, and address underperformance with directness and care.
- Comfort managing concurrent workstreams of different types — you can hold both active product development and ongoing system maintenance without either drifting, and you make deliberate trade-off decisions when priorities compete.
- Comfort operating with ambiguity and evolving context — you bring structure without imposing rigidity.
- A background in B2B SaaS or any environment where engineering decisions have direct commercial or operational impact is welcome.
