Staff Software Engineer | Console

Console is the platform layer that powers DeepL's logged-in enterprise product. We own the navigation shell, access control infrastructure, design system, subscription and entitlements model, and the integration contracts that let product teams across DeepL ship enterprise features without reinventing solved problems. Our mandate is to evolve Console from a collection of features into a coherent, extensible platform that gives enterprise customers confidence to manage their organisations and gives DeepL's product teams the foundations to build fast without creating fragmentation. We sit at the centre of every significant enterprise product launch at DeepL, and our architectural decisions shape the logged-in experience for over 100,000 enterprise customers worldwide.

Responsibilities

Define and own the architectural direction for one or more of Console's platform pillars, setting integration contracts, driving standards adoption, and ensuring consistency across the teams that build on top of our shared platform; Lead architectural decision-making across Console's sub-teams and product verticals, authoring RFCs and design documents that are adopted across engineering and shape how DeepL builds logged-in product surfaces; Reduce coordination overhead between Console and dependent product teams by designing self-service integration patterns, documented contracts, and governed processes that remove Console as a delivery bottleneck; Own the technical evolution of Console's most complex cross-cutting systems, including permission and access control infrastructure, navigation and entitlements architecture, and the migration path from implicit to contract-tested service interfaces; Partner with engineering managers and product leads across product verticals to align on platform capability roadmaps, ensuring Console's architecture enables rather than constrains their delivery; Set and maintain the engineering quality bar for Console's platform, defining and championing DORA metric targets, contract testing standards, feature flag practices, and progressive migration patterns across the team; Mentor and develop engineers across Console sub-teams, providing architectural guidance, conducting design reviews, and raising the team's collective technical ceiling

Requirements

Demonstrated ownership of cross-team platform or shared-infrastructure systems, with architectural decisions that other engineering teams depended on and adopted; Strong full-stack web engineering depth spanning frontend and backend, and the ability to reason about integration contracts and system-level trade-offs across distributed web architectures; A track record of achieving technical alignment across teams without line management authority, through written proposals, structured facilitation, and clear articulation of trade-offs; Experience building or governing access control, permissions, or identity systems in an enterprise SaaS context, including an understanding of the commercial and security implications of these decisions; Comfort operating in genuinely ambiguous ownership spaces: identifying where architectural authority sits, stepping into gaps, and establishing clarity through documentation and shared standards; Evidence of force multiplication, measurably improving the engineering capability of the people around you through mentorship, standards-setting, or architectural work that reduces others' complexity

Benefits

Diverse and internationally distributed team; Open communication, regular feedback; Hybrid work, flexible hours; Virtual Shares; Regular in-person team events; Monthly full-day hacking sessions; 30 days of annual leave; access to mental health resources; Competitive benefits