Team Lead - Open Source Engineering

Job Description

Your mission

In this position, you will lead our core engineering team and be responsible for steering our open source project Haystack. You will foster a high-quality software engineering culture in the team, do sparring sessions on major design decisions, and evaluate new trends in the NLP / Information Retrieval space so that Haystack users can always "consume latest NLP research for real-world use cases". You really master these three worlds: Software Engineering, Leadership, NLP. Nice side effects of working in open-source: you will see the direct impact of your work extremely fast, you are in constant exchange with a global community, and you leave a significant footprint in this world! In addition to the open source work, you work closely with our platform team to make sure the core components of Haystack fulfill the needs of our SaaS customers at enterprise scale.

Our mission

We are an open source startup that empowers developers to build flexible and powerful semantic search systems to query all types of data using our Haystack framework.deepset is at the forefront of ​natural ​language ​processing (NLP) and we are on our way to becoming a standard for ​semantic search. Come join our team and ​work with tech experts on real-world cases, in a fast-paced and high-impact environment, and shape the NLP space together with us.

Life at deepset

At deepset you will find an environment ​with equal opportunities to grow, share ideas, build relationships, and succeed. We believe every employee is important and generates a direct impact on our team’s success.We are certified by Flexa® Careers as a flexible employer, and our remote first culture is designed to provide work-life balance, autonomy, and flexibility.Our daily meetings, the quarterly in person "Re.Base", and the social events allow us to work with great synergy. We would like to invite you to visit our life page to learn more about our culture. ​

Your impact

• Lead a team of highly talented NLP and Software Engineers
• Steer our open-source project Haystack
• Coordinate major technical decisions and translate complex NLP into intuitive, scalable software
• Foster the engineering culture in the team & mentor individual developers
• Iterate on dev processes & tools
• Identify & evaluate new ideas for the roadmap
• Transfer big topics from the roadmap into clear issues
• Coordinate with other teams (SaaS team, DevRel, Field Engineering, Documentation ...)

Your profile

• 5+ years experience of having worked in a related field
• 2+ years experience in leading a tech team
• Expert in Python & excellent Software Engineering Skills
• Excellent knowledge of databases and the design of developer-friendly APIs
• Good knowledge of NLP and transformers
• You have seen various engineering cultures, teams, and processes and understand the pros and cons of different processes/methods
• Ability to translate complex problems into simple words and a passion for helping your team members
• Pragmatism, sense of responsibility, and the ambition to go the extra mile
• Bonus: Experience in leading an open source project

Perks

• Remote-first: You can choose to work from home or any other workspace that suits you. We offer a home office budget for equipment and furniture, and we would be happy to sponsor a co-working spot.
• Grow: Personal and professional growth is important to us. We offer a yearly 1000 EUR budget to learn and develop new skills, the chance to speak at conferences, and our team-favorite is the monthly “Hacky Friday”.
• Connect: We have a virtual office, a monthly social budget to reconnect virtually or in person, regular walk and talks with colleagues from other teams, and a flexible travel policy that enables you to meet colleagues in-person when needed.
• Re:base: Once every few months we meet in person. We believe it's great to still see each other occasionally IRL. We have good discussions, we do workshops, we brainstorm, we have lunches together, and we have fun. We cover travel expenses for sure.
• You are an owner: We offer every employee the opportunity to be enrolled in the employee stock option plan and own a part of the company.
• Personal time off: If you want to recharge and travel the world - there are 27 days of paid holidays.
• Choose your tech: Linux, Windows, or macOS? Laptop or PC? The choice is yours and we will provide what you need.

Wondering, who will be working with you every day?

• Sara, one of our talented NLP engineers
• You will be reporting to and collaborating with Malte, our CTO

What colleagues say

• "At deepset, I have regained the joy of being part of a fascinating project with an inspiring vision. The team is a highly talented, enthusiastic, and caring group of human beings. I look forward to helping our experts solve the exciting challenges of providing practical NLP on a large scale.” (Ivan, DevOps Engineer)
• "Joining deepset has been rewarding from day one: I could work right away on challenging, interesting topics at the cutting edge of NLP with a really talented and welcoming team of engineers.” (Sara, NLP Engineer)