Engineering Manager: Lead Full-Stack & Customisation

Deepl; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Virtual Shares

30 days annual leave

Hack Fridays

Open feedback culture

Job summary

DeepL in London is seeking a senior engineering leader to grow and guide a full stack team delivering the customization surface and related enterprise features.

You’ll partner with product and design to shape user experiences, own tech direction, and drive adoption of large-scale translation tooling. This role blends hands-on coding with strategic leadership in a hybrid London-based environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead, grow and develop a small, senior full stack team, and set its technical direction across services and the customer-facing web experience.
• Own the customisation surface end to end: terminology and glossaries, style rules, style profiles, translation memory, and the sharing and administration around them.
• Shape the product, not just deliver it. Work with your product manager and designer to define how customisation should actually feel to use, and bring a point of view of your own rather than waiting for a specification.
• Challenge what we are shipping. The biggest wins available here are the unglamorous ones: making it possible to organise, find and trust a large set of customisations rather than being buried by them. We want someone who spots those and argues for them.
• Take responsibility for whether customers use what we build, not just whether we ship it. Find out where people drop out of the journey and close those gaps.
• Reduce the setup burden. Make configuring customisation something an administrator can do confidently on their own rather than something that needs weeks of guided onboarding.
• Partner with our research colleagues to bring adaptive, context-aware personalisation from prototype into a product customers trust, including the transparency that lets them see why a translation was personalised.
• Look after customer-owned assets properly. Glossaries and translation memories are what our customers have invested most in, and they need to be safe, portable and correctly scoped.
• Work across research, product, design, platform, identity and go-to-market teams, and turn what customers are hitting into engineering priorities leadership can act on.

Job description

DeepL in London is seeking a senior engineering leader to grow and guide a full stack team delivering the customization surface and related enterprise features.

You’ll partner with product and design to shape user experiences, own tech direction, and drive adoption of large-scale translation tooling. This role blends hands-on coding with strategic leadership in a hybrid London-based environment.