Staff Software Engineer Console

Salary: £60,000 - 100,000 per year

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

Responsibilities:

• Define and own the architectural direction for one or more of our 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 our sub-teams and product verticals, authoring RFCs and design documents that are adopted across engineering and shape how we build 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 our 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 our architecture enables rather than constrains delivery
• Set and maintain the engineering quality bar for our 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 our sub-teams, providing architectural guidance, conducting design reviews, and raising the teams collective technical ceiling

Technologies:

• AI
• Backend
• Frontend
• Security
• Web
• Network

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We are DeepL, a global AI product and research company building secure, intelligent solutions to complex business problems. Our Language AI platform is trusted by over 200,000 business customers and millions of individuals across 228 global markets for human-like translation, improved writing, and real-time voice translation. Founded in 2017, we have around 1,000 employees and are backed by Benchmark, IVP, and Index Ventures. Our Console team powers our logged-in enterprise product and sits at the centre of major enterprise launches, shaping the experience for over 100,000 enterprise customers worldwide. We offer a diverse, internationally distributed team, open communication, regular feedback, hybrid work with flexible hours, Virtual Shares, regular in-person team events, monthly Hack Fridays, 30 days of annual leave, and location-tailored competitive benefits. We are based across the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, the US, and Japan, and the role is located in London.

last updated 35 week of 2026