Senior Software Engineer - Research Tooling

Overview

Meet DeepL 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

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 Linked In, Instagram and our Blog.

Meet the team behind this journey

Research Tooling Teams’ 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 infrastructures 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.

Qualities we look for

• 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, Postgre
  
  SQL, 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…