Engineering Manager | Payments, Abuse, and Conversion

Meet DeepL. DeepL is a global AI product and research company focused on building secure, intelligent solutions to complex business problems. Over 200,000 business customers and millions of individuals across 228 global markets today trust DeepL's Language AI platform for human-like translation, improved writing and real-time voice translation. Founded in 2017 by CEO Jaroslaw "Jarek" Kutylowski, DeepL now has around 1,000 passionate employees and is supported by world-renowned investors including Benchmark, IVP, and Index Ventures. Our goal is to become the global leader in trusted, intelligent AI technology, building products that drive better communication, foster connections, and create a meaningful impact.

You will be joining the PAC (Payments, Abuse & Conversion) team, part of the BAT (Business Acceleration Technology) organisation within DeepL's Monetisation track. This team sits at the commercial core of DeepL's self-serve growth engine, owning the full customer journey from activation through to paid conversion and ensuring that journey remains secure. PAC manages DeepL's self-serve B2C segment, driving user activation, retention, and monetisation while maintaining robust fraud and abuse prevention across the platform.

Your responsibilities:

• People Leadership: Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed team of engineers across varying seniority levels. You will own their well-being and development through regular 1:1s, continuous feedback, performance reviews, and dedicated career development coaching.
• Execution & Delivery: Own the team's delivery cadence, establishing a predictable and healthy agile process. You will partner with your Product Manager to define, refine, and prioritise the quarterly roadmap.
• Technical Guidance: Act as the team's technical steward. Your strong engineering background is essential. You will guide architectural decisions across PAC's payments and fraud infrastructure.
• Fraud & Conversion Ownership: Hold the strategic balance between conversion optimisation and fraud prevention.
• Stakeholder Management: Serve as PAC's primary representative in planning and cross-functional discussions.

Qualities we look for:

• Proven experience in direct people management, leading engineering teams through growth, performance challenges, and organisational change.
• Significant hands-on experience as a Senior or Staff-level backend engineer.
• Proven hands-on experience building or managing payment gateway integrations, checkout flows, or billing infrastructure at production scale.
• Sufficient depth in fraud prevention, abuse detection, rate limiting, or bot protection.
• Proven experience designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available distributed systems in a cloud-native environment.
• Demonstrable experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS), containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes), and API design (gRPC, REST).
• Hands-on experience with both relational and NoSQL databases.
• Deep commitment to the growth and well-being of your team.
• Comfort interrogating funnel metrics, conversion data, and fraud loss reporting.
• A pragmatic approach to balancing technical excellence with the practical need to ship.

What we offer:

• Diverse and internationally distributed team.
• Open communication, regular feedback.
• Hybrid work, flexible hours.
• Virtual Shares - An ownership mindset in every role.
• Regular in-person team events.
• Monthly full-day hacking sessions.
• 30 days of annual leave.
• Competitive benefits.

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.

We are an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at DeepL for who you are - we appreciate authenticity here.