Senior Enterprise API Engineer - Backend & Governance

Doist; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Virtual Shares

Hack Fridays

30 days annual leave

Job summary

DeepL is seeking an experienced Backend/Platform Engineer to lead enterprise API adoption and governance across our global customer base. You will own end‑to‑end services, implement robust testing and reliability practices, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver scalable enterprise features.

You will work within the API Enterprise team, shaping secure, compliant integrations with OAuth and MCP‑based tooling, while driving operational excellence and four‑nine reliability in a

Qualifications

• Enterprise IT and security admins as primary users.
• Experience designing scalable backend systems and APIs.
• Strong communication and cross‑team collaboration.
• Experience with modern enterprise APIs (OAuth) and secure integrations.

Responsibilities

• Drive Enterprise API Adoption: own features that drive durable adoption.
• Build for Governance & Compliance: design controls for data residency, auditability and security.
• Guardianship of Quality & Production Reliability: own services end‑to‑end with SLOs and on‑call rotation.
• Architect Across the Enterprise Ecosystem: align with stakeholders and ship cohesive enterprise capabilities.

Skills

Enterprise-First Mindset

Backend Mastery

C# / .NET

RESTful APIs

Distributed Systems

React/TypeScript

Cross-Team Leadership

Operational Excellence

AI-Native Velocity

Tools

NVIDIA DGX SuperPODs

GitHub Copilot

Claude Code

Codex

Job description

DeepL is seeking an experienced Backend/Platform Engineer to lead enterprise API adoption and governance across our global customer base. You will own end‑to‑end services, implement robust testing and reliability practices, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver scalable enterprise features.

You will work within the API Enterprise team, shaping secure, compliant integrations with OAuth and MCP‑based tooling, while driving operational excellence and four‑nine reliability in a