Staff Software Engineer | Developer Experience

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Staff Software Engineer | Developer Experience in UK

DeepL
Full time
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UK
08/28/2026
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London

Responsibilities

Own technical direction for a significant part of the Developer Experience mandate and drive initiatives through adoption.
Improve developer productivity across multiple engineering teams by enhancing processes, tooling, and AI-enabled workflows.
Design and build workflows and tooling spanning local development, code review, CI/CD, and release.
Lead evaluation, implementation, and governance of AI-assisted developer tooling across the software lifecycle.
Treat internal engineers as customers by using surveys, delivery metrics, and support data to guide platform improvements.
Define cross-track standards, provide practical migration paths, and drive adoption across engineering teams.
Mentor engineers and raise technical standards through design reviews, architecture decisions, and maintainable engineering practices.
Participate in sustainable on-call operations for Developer Experience services and tooling.

Requirements

Software engineering background with deep expertise in at least one programming language and the ability to work in unfamiliar codebases.
Experience working on a product team and shipping software to external customers.
Strong interest and experience in developer experience, build systems, CI/CD, internal platforms, release engineering, or developer tooling.
Experience identifying and delivering improvements across multiple teams with technical ownership and influence without authority.
Ability to evaluate AI-assisted development capabilities pragmatically, run experiments, and establish safe guardrails.
Sound judgment, persistence, and an ability to balance ideal solutions with shippable, iterative improvements.
Preferred experience measuring developer productivity using DORA, developer surveys, or another defensible approach.
Preferred experience building or operating AI-assisted developer tooling, including code review tools, agents, MCP servers, or evaluations.
Preferred experience with internal developer platforms or portals, especially Backstage.
Preferred community-building experience through open source, guilds, communities of practice, developer advocacy, or adoption programs.
Preferred experience with GitLab or comparable CI/CD at scale and build systems for large polyglot codebases, including runner fleets, caching, artifacts, and compile or test-time optimization.

Benefits

Hybrid work with office attendance twice per week and flexible working hours.
Virtual Shares for every employee.
Regular in-person team and company events.
Monthly full-day Hack Friday sessions for passion projects and cross-team collaboration.
30 days of annual leave excluding public holidays, plus mental health resources.
Competitive location-tailored benefits package.
Internationally distributed team spanning more than 90 nationalities and multiple countries.

Salary: Competitive

DeepL

DeepL builds advanced AI-powered translation technology that delivers human-like translations and real-time voice communication. Catering to over 200,000 business customers and millions of individuals worldwide, DeepL's Language AI platform is trusted for its precision and ease of use, making it ...

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