Senior Engineering Manager | Voice

Overview

In this role you lead DeepL’s Voice for Meetings engineering team, delivering real-time AI voice features that power professional collaboration. You’ll shape the technical direction, work closely with product and applied science leaders, and ensure high-quality, low-latency delivery. You’ll balance hands-on coding with people leadership to grow a senior team and influence product strategy. The opportunity combines cutting-edge AI with meaningful, scalable impact across global teams. This role offers visibility, ownership, and the chance to shape a critical product on the company’s growth path.

Pay / Benefits

• Hybrid work
• 30 days of annual leave
• Virtual Shares
• Hack Fridays
• Regular in-person team events
• Competitive benefits

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a small team of senior engineers, owning hiring, performance, and career development
• Drive end-to-end delivery of real-time voice features from architecture to production
• Own the technical direction for the team’s systems and contribute to architectural decisions
• Collaborate closely with Principal Product Manager and senior technical lead to shape what gets built
• Bridge engineering with applied science to understand inference, preprocessing, and data drift effects on the product
• Make and communicate trade-offs under latency, model quality, and timeline constraints
• Identify risks and gaps beyond scope and implement lasting fixes
• Foster a high-agency, low-bureaucracy culture with ownership of outcomes

Key requirements

• Managed engineers directly and owned a team’s delivery, performance, and development
• Led product-facing engineering projects with real-time, distributed, or streaming systems
• Ability to reason about architecture, failure modes, and make credible design judgments
• Pragmatic understanding of ML systems in production: inference, preprocessing, data drift
• Independent, proactive work style with strong product and commercial intuition
• Comfort working at evolving directions with competing priorities

• Independent thinking
• Proactive ownership
• Strong communication and collaboration
• Real-time voice / streaming systems
• Distributed systems at scale
• Latency-sensitive architecture

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