Hybrid Senior Software Engineer – Research Tooling

at DeepL

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer – Research Tooling
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Munich, Germany

About the role

• Senior Software Engineer designing and building full-stack features for AI research tooling at DeepL. Collaborating with researchers and engineers to deliver innovative solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and build full-stack features: You will own problems end-to-end.
• Maintain and Improve Systems: Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for our ML code base.
• Operational Excellence: Improve observability, monitoring, and automation.
• Ensure code quality and clarity: Participate in thoughtful code reviews, contribute to architectural decisions.
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with researchers, ML engineers and platform teams to deliver real value to our users.

Requirements

• Deep empathy for solving user problems and bringing a product-oriented mindset toward internal tools.
• Strong software engineering skills - clean abstractions, robust data modeling, sound architectural decisions.
• Comfortable working across the stack, even if your strengths lean more towards backend, frontend or infrastructure.
• Technical leadership, driving cross-team initiatives, mentoring peers, and setting engineering standards.
• Clear communicator, active listener, and team player.
• Eager to learn, open to new challenges.

Benefits

• 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: as a language-focused company, we value the importance of clear, honest communication.
• Hybrid work, flexible hours: we offer a hybrid work schedule, with team members coming into the office twice a week.
• Virtual Shares - An ownership mindset in every role.
• Regular in-person team events: we bond over vibrant events that are as unique as our team.
• Monthly full-day hacking sessions: we value your initiatives, impact, and creativity.
• 30 days of annual leave: we value your peace of mind.
• Competitive benefits: we've crafted it to reflect the diversity of our team.