Senior Staff Software Engineer

DeepL

London, United Kingdom

What will you be doing at DeepL

Based in our London hub, the Senior Staff Engineer will own and drive technical decisions to ensure the scalability, reliability, availability and security of our internal systems and enterprise revenue platforms within Convert And Scale to build, commission and deploy the technology and data infrastructure and architecture to meet business revenue growth objectives.

By defining a path to implementation, this role should ensure that product decisions and planning are carried out in a scalable manner. The Senior Staff Engineer will challenge implementation, ensure execution alongside management and establish a collaborative path with other tracks in the engineering organisation.

Your Responsibilities

Facilitate the overall architecture of our business systems across teams, system owners and engineers.
Provide guidance on the architecture and its components through the commissioning and decommissioning of all services involved.
Ownership of revenue data management: Data architecture, governance, data protection, etc.
Provide hands-on technical leadership on projects with a size and scope of +7 teams
Helping teams plan and estimate activities
Supporting and challenging a realistic roadmap with team leads and product managers, challenging timelines and providing predictability of deliverables to the business.
Mentor, develop and coach other senior software engineers, engineering managers and business leaders.

Qualities we look for

Significant experience in one or more of the following domains:
- Identity & Access Management
- Fraud prevention
- Payments
- Monetization
Experience initiating and driving large technical projects involving collaboration with multiple teams across an organization
10+ years of hands-on technical experience as an engineer, including experience in large-scale organizations
Demonstrated ability to influence and mentor teams and individuals across multiple departments or larger organizational structures
Proactive and proficient in stakeholder communication in English, ensuring clear and effective interactions
Experience with a wide range of observability practices (SLOs, Dashboards, Alertis,..) for business critical systems
Experience with Domain Driven Design (DDD) is a plus