Senior Engineering Manager, Developer Experience

About 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. Building on a history of innovation, quality and security, DeepL continues to expand its offerings beyond the field of Language, including DeepL Agent - an autonomous AI assistant designed to transform the way businesses and knowledge workers get work done. Founded in 2017 by CEO Jarek Kutylowski, DeepL now has over 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. To achieve this, we need talented people like you to join our journey. If you’re ready to shape the future of AI and grow your career in a fast-moving, purpose-driven environment, DeepL is your next destination.

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.

When we share what it’s like to work at DeepL, the reactions are overwhelmingly positive. This might be because of our technology that helps millions of people and businesses communicate and work better every day, or because of the trust, curiosity, and care that shape our culture.

What we know for sure is this: being part of DeepL means joining a team dedicated to innovation, growth, and well-being. Discover more about life at DeepL on LinkedIn, Instagram, and our Blog.

Meet the Team Behind This Journey

Our journey is built on the foundation of DeepL, a name synonymous with world-class translation quality and language AI. We are now scaling our engineering organization to define the art of the possible for real-time voice interpretation and beyond.

To support this aggressive growth, we are evolving our Developer Experience (DevEx) organization. This team is the "Execution Engine" of DeepL engineering. We are bringing together DevWorkflows, DevPlatform, and the Quality Assurance Department (QAD) under a single strategic mission: Speed + Quality.

Our goal is to reduce the time it takes for builds to go through pipelines while simultaneously raising the quality bar. You will lead a team responsible for the entire SDLC—from local development environments and AI-powered internal tooling (CodeEx) to stable backend infrastructure and optimized frontend builds. If you are a builder who thrives on the challenge of "High Velocity with High Quality," this is your team.

Your Responsibilities

• Lead the DevEx Strategy: You will own the long-term technical strategy and execution for the DevEx domain, uniting the "Workflow" (building code) and "Platform" (running code) teams to create a seamless developer journey.
• Drive Speed & Quality: Your primary mission is to optimize the engineering feedback loop. This includes drastically reducing build times (specifically focusing on frontend pipeline velocity) while ensuring stability and reliability.
• Modernize Quality Assurance: You will inherit and lead the QA Department (QAD). You will be responsible for defining a modern testing strategy that shifts focus from manual gates to automated pipelines, tooling, and engineering-led quality.
• Scale the Organization: As a Senior Engineering Manager (L5), you will manage other Engineering Managers and Leads. You will mentor them to become stronger technical leaders, specifically upskilling the wider track on quality ownership and tooling best practices.
• Evolve the Platform: You will oversee the transition to full-stack infrastructure ownership, ensuring our internal AI tooling (CodeEx) and Kubernetes-based environments are robust, scalable, and delightful to use.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: You will work closely with other Track Leads (e.g., Voice) to ensure our tooling roadmap aligns with business-critical product goals, effectively removing organizational-level roadblocks.

What We Look For

• Senior Engineering Leadership: You have a proven track record as a "Manager of Managers," having successfully scaled engineering organizations and led other leaders (EMs or Leads).
• Hybrid Platform & Quality Background: You possess a unique blend of experience in Platform Engineering (CI/CD, Kubernetes, GitLab, Internal Developer Platforms) and Quality Strategy. You understand how to build infrastructure that enforces quality by default.
• Strategic "Builder" Mindset: You are not just a theorist or a researcher; you are a hands-on leader who has owned the delivery of business-critical improvements to engineering velocity. You can translate "better tooling" into tangible business speed.
• Focus on Developer Velocity: You have specific experience diagnosing and fixing slow build pipelines (frontend/backend) and have successfully implemented tools that improved the daily life of engineers.
• Quality beyond SDET: While you understand testing deeply, your experience goes beyond being a "Senior SDET." You have experience owning the strategy of quality for a wider organization, influencing how product teams build and ship software.
• Mentorship & Influence: You are capable of mentoring senior engineers and managers outside of your direct reporting line, helping to raise the bar for the entire engineering track.

Key skills/competency

• DevEx Strategy
• Platform Engineering
• Quality Assurance Modernization
• CI/CD Optimization
• Kubernetes Environments
• Engineering Leadership
• Mentorship & Coaching
• Developer Velocity
• Internal AI Tooling (CodeEx)
• Cross-functional Collaboration