Team Lead Engineering - Platform (f/m/d)

Meyandy LLC; Hamburg; Hybrid; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

ZEAL Network SE, Hamburg, is seeking a Team Lead Engineering - Platform to guide a high-performing platform team in building reliable, scalable shared services and APIs. You will balance architecture decisions with hands-on coding and foster an ownership-driven engineering culture.

Lead a small team of 2 engineers, mentor talent, and drive reliability through testing and AI-enhanced workflows while collaborating with Core and Product teams to deliver value for Zeal's B2B platform.

Qualifikationen

• Proven leadership experience leading engineering teams.
• Strong hands-on software engineering background (Kotlin/Spring Boot).
• Experience designing reliable, scalable distributed systems.

Aufgaben

• Lead a platform-focused engineering team to build shared services.
• Hire, develop and grow a 2-engineer team with ownership culture.
• Define and drive architectural decisions with your team.
• Code as part of the team, contributing to features and fixes.
• Champion AI usage in engineering workflows and explore AI opportunities.
• Establish reliability practices including monkey and load testing.
• Own backlog prioritization balancing reliability, tech debt, and business needs.
• Collaborate with Core and Platform teams to deliver scalable platform services.

Kenntnisse

People leadership

Hands-on engineering

Cross-team collaboration

Architectural decisions

Tools

Kotlin

Spring Boot

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Jobbeschreibung

ZEAL Network SE is a dynamic, international group of companies that has been creating exciting and innovative lottery experiences for over 20 years. As Germany’s largest provider of online lotteries through our brands LOTTO24 and Tipp24, and a trusted partner of Spain’s ONCE, the second-largest national lottery, we’re shaping the future of the lottery industry. We are passionate about driving innovation, as demonstrated by our newest brands, Freiheit+ and Traumhausverlosung, which bring fresh and exciting dreams to life. Additionally, through ZEAL Ventures, we invest in inspiring e-commerce start-ups like Omaze and DAYMADE, fueling fresh ideas and opportunities. Our team of 350+ professionals from diverse backgrounds is united by a visionary mindset, a passion for collaboration, and a commitment to inspire dreams. At ZEAL, we empower our people to think ambitiously and work together toward a shared purpose: helping people imagine and achieve their aspirations.

As our Engineering Team Lead (f/m/d), you combine strong people leadership with hands-on technical expertise to guide and grow a high-performing team. Your team owns its domain and sits at the heart of Zeal's B2B core platform: its customers are the core platform teams themselves, whom you enable with reliable, scalable shared services.

Your tasks:

• You lead a platform-focused engineering team responsible for building reliable, scalable shared services that enable all product teams
• Hire, Build and lead a team of 2 engineers: Hire, develop, and grow a high-performing team, fostering an ownership-driven and reliability-focused engineering culture
• Lead technically and strategically, define and drive architectural decisions together with your team
• Code as part of the team: While guiding architecture and strategy, you’ll regularly write code, contribute to features, and help solve complex technical challenges together with your team
• Champion the effective use of AI in your team's engineering workflows (e.g. AI-assisted development and tooling) and explore opportunities to apply AI within the platform's capabilities
• Establish and drive reliability practices: Design and implement monkey testing and load testing strategies to proactively identify weaknesses and continuously improve platform resilience and stability
• Own prioritization and backlog: Balance reliability, tech debt, operational, and business demands with stakeholders across Core, Product, and Platform, keeping a transparent roadmap focused on the highest-value work.
• Own core technical services: Take end-to-end ownership of internally developed platform services such as Auth Service, API Gateway, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and easy to consume
• Act as the bridge between domains: Collaborate closely with Core domain teams and the Platform team to understand needs, identify gaps, and provide efficient, reusable technical solutions
• Enable data and event flows: Own and evolve solutions core technical tracking infrastructure, ensuring reliable and scalable event collection and forwarding to downstream systems
• Deliver secure, robust and maintainable technical solutions while focusing on great customer experiences and business needs

What you offer us:

• Proven people leadership skills with the ability to grow teams from early stage to high performance
• Strong hands-on engineering background in Kotlin/Spring Boot, Mongo/PostgresDB ideally paired with DevOps experience
• Experience designing and operating reliable, scalable distributed systems, including resilience patterns and failure handling
• Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, and performance testing including load/monkey testing
• Experience building and evolving internal platform services and APIs that are easy for other teams to consume “You build it, you run it” mindset with hands-on experience running services in Kubernetes-based environments
• Ability to balance standardization vs. team autonomy
• Strong collaboration and alignment skills across multiple engineering teams and stakeholders from other deparments
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Team Lead Engineering - Platform (f/m/d) — Zeal Network, Hamburg.