Senior Engineering Manager | API

Senior Engineering Manager

The APIs & Partnerships team exposes the DeepL communications platform to external developers and businesses through well-designed, documented, and managed APIs. This pillar has been at the heart of DeepL's commercial success, growing rapidly from 3 to over 20 engineers and serving billions of characters every month for mission-critical workflows.

As our Senior Engineering Manager based in NYC, you will be the foundational leader for the API Platform pillar. Your domain will include the teams responsible for our Core API, Developer Experience (DevEx), and API Infrastructure. You will take ownership of this critical area, scaling it from its current team of 7+ engineers into a multi-team organization of 30-40+ people over the next 2-3 years. Your leadership will be pivotal in enabling access to all DeepL services with world-class performance and reliability, empowering developers globally.

As part of the team, you will support our enterprise customers with the integrations they need for LLM-powered translation and communication, and empower developers with scalable, secure, and easy-to-deploy solutions.

By contributing to our backend services and client libraries for enterprise customers, you will directly help serve the team's objectives for making DeepL the world's preferred solution for multi-lingual communication problems :

• Scalability and parity : enable access to all DeepL services with the same performance across all regions.
• Serve the developer : Encourage the development of new applications and services using our APIs.
• Usage : Boost consumption metrics by facilitating widespread adoption.

The core purpose of this role is to build and lead a high-performing, multi-team pillar, taking full ownership of the business and technical outcomes for DeepL's API Platform.

You are a product-obsessed leader who thinks like a General Manager and has a proven, hands-on engineering background. Your track record shows you don't just manage projects; you build and scale high-impact teams in fast-paced environments.

Must-Haves :

Developer & Customer Obsession : A deep obsession with the developer experience and customer journey, from API design and documentation to post-launch reliability and iteration.

If this role and our mission resonate with you, but you're hesitant because you don't check all the boxes, don't let that hold you back. At DeepL, it's all about the value you bring and the growth we can foster together. Go ahead, applylet's discover your potential together. We can't wait to meet you!

We are an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at DeepL for who you arewe appreciate authenticity here. Our product is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all succeed, contribute, and think forward! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It's in our diversity that we will find the power to break down language barriers in the world.