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

ZEAL Network

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 * Pragmatic, ownership-driven mindset with a focus on enabling others and reducing complexity * Strong engineering fundamentals in building secure, scalable, and reliable systems, including security-by-design, resilience patterns, and operating production systems at scale. WHAT WE OFFER: * State-of-the-art technologies and an agile environment (Check our Tech Radar: https://lotto24.github.io/tech-radar/) * A modern, dynamic culture grounded in the success of a leading-edge e-commerce company. * A talented team of ambitious, like-minded colleagues where your knowledge and ideas truly make an impact. * Ongoing personal growth, supported by an annual development budget of €1,500 to invest in your professional development. * Trust and autonomy, no micromanagement, just confidence in your ability to deliver and excel. * Flexible work options with a hybrid setup focused on results. * Unlimited vacation days in addition to your yearly 30-day vacation allowance. * Opportunity for workations abroad using our WorkFlex tool. * Monthly mobility allowance of €30 to use on the mobility option of your choice (e.g., the Deutschlandticket), plus access to a company bike leasing program. * Company pension scheme, provided in partnership with Degura, to support your future financial security. * Subsidized EGYM WELLPASS membership, with a contribution of only €25 per month, giving you access to a wide range of gyms and sports options across Germany. * Monthly company events, team activities, and informal gatherings, including our popular company-wide lunches provided four days a week.

ZEAL Network

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 hands-on technical expertise to lead with strong people leadership and grow a high-performing team. You'll drive technical and architectural decisions, contribute to the codebase yourself, and ensure your team's services strengthen Zeal's B2B core platform. Working closely with Product Management and stakeholders, you'll balance business goals, customer experience, and technical excellence. YOUR TASKS: * You lead a product-focused engineering team that builds and evolves Zeal's core B2B platform capabilities for internal business customers * 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 * Act as a sparring partner for Product Management and our internal businesses to define and drive product and tech strategy * Deliver secure, robust and maintainable technical solutions while focusing on great customer experiences and business needs * Drive collaboration: Work closely with other teams to align APIs, technical interfaces, and architectural consistency * Own and operate the domain and the team’s microservices. WHAT YOU OFFER US: * Proven people leadership skills, with an empowering style that enables rather than micromanages * Strong and up-to-date hands-on experience working with Kotlin/Spring Boot, Mongo/PostgresDB * A “You build it, you run it” mindset, with experience in deploying, monitoring, and maintaining microservices on Kubernetes. * Strong understanding of how to create and evolve REST-APIs that clients like to use and Event-driven processing pipelines built on Kafka. * Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions, and to align diverse stakeholders * Excellent organizational and prioritization skills in dynamic settings * Proactive, ownership-driven mindset * Strong engineering fundamentals in building secure, scalable, and reliable systems, including security-by-design, resilience patterns, and operating production systems at scale. * Preferred: Experience with introducing and evolving agentic AI development practices and operating models. WHAT WE OFFER: * State-of-the-art technologies and an agile environment (Check our Tech Radar: https://lotto24.github.io/tech-radar/) * A modern, dynamic culture grounded in the success of a leading-edge e-commerce company. * A talented team of ambitious, like-minded colleagues where your knowledge and ideas truly make an impact. * Ongoing personal growth, supported by an annual development budget of €1,500 to invest in your professional development. * Trust and autonomy, no micromanagement, just confidence in your ability to deliver and excel. * Flexible work options with a hybrid setup focused on results. * Unlimited vacation days in addition to your yearly 30-day vacation allowance. * Opportunity for workations abroad using our WorkFlex tool. * Monthly mobility allowance of €30 to use on the mobility option of your choice (e.g., the Deutschlandticket), plus access to a company bike leasing program. * Company pension scheme, provided in partnership with Degura, to support your future financial security. * Subsidized EGYM WELLPASS membership, with a contribution of only €25 per month, giving you access to a wide range of gyms and sports options across Germany. * Monthly company events, team activities, and informal gatherings, including our popular company-wide lunches provided four days a week.

ZEAL Network

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. THE ROLE: As the Team Lead Marketing Analytics (f/m/d), you will own the marketing analytics domain end to end. You are the senior voice on what gets built, why it matters, and in what order. You partner directly with marketing leadership to translate ambition into a clear, prioritised roadmap, and you lead the team that delivers it. This is a domain ownership role, not a coordination role. You set direction, manage trade-offs, and represent the marketing analytics agenda in executive conversations. You treat the domain as a portfolio of data products with defined owners, users, success metrics, and lifecycles. You are accountable for outcomes, not activity. You will also be the senior measurement authority for marketing performance at ZEAL, with hands-on credibility across MMM, attribution, and incrementality. You hold vendors accountable, build internal capability, and ensure decisions on marketing investment are grounded in defensible analytics. YOUR TASKS: * Lead, coach, and grow a multidisciplinary team of analysts, data scientists, and engineers. * Foster a high-performance culture focused on development, collaboration, and impact. * Own hiring, performance management, succession planning, and capability building. * Define and evolve ZEAL’s marketing measurement strategy, including MMM, attribution, incrementality testing, and performance measurement. * Establish robust measurement frameworks that support marketing investment decisions. * Ensure analytical rigor by validating methodologies, challenging assumptions, and developing internal expertise. * Partner with senior leaders across marketing, product, finance, and technology to influence strategy and decision-making. * Translate complex analytics into clear, actionable business recommendations. * Define and prioritise the marketing analytics roadmap, balancing strategic initiatives with operational needs. * Build scalable analytics products and capabilities that drive long-term business value.   WHAT YOU OFFER US: * 8+ years of experience in analytics, data science, marketing analytics, or a related field. * 3+ years of leadership experience managing and developing analytics teams. * Proven success building, scaling, and retaining high-performing multidisciplinary teams. * Deep expertise in Marketing Mix Modelling (MMM), attribution, incrementality testing, and marketing measurement. * Strong understanding of customer acquisition, marketing effectiveness, and profitability optimisation. * Ability to shape measurement strategy and critically evaluate analytical methodologies. * Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills. * Experience influencing senior leaders and aligning cross-functional teams around business goals. * Strong commercial acumen with the ability to balance business objectives, analytical rigor, and technical constraints. * Knowledge of modern MarTech/AdTech ecosystems and experience delivering scalable analytics solutions with data and engineering teams.   WHAT WE OFFER YOU: * A modern, dynamic culture grounded in the success of a leading-edge e-commerce company. * A talented team of ambitious, like-minded colleagues where your knowledge and ideas truly make an impact. * Ongoing personal growth, supported by an annual development budget of €2,500 to invest in your professional development. * Trust and autonomy, no micromanagement, just confidence in your ability to deliver and excel. * Flexible work options with a hybrid setup focused on results. * Unlimited vacation days in addition to your yearly 30-day vacation allowance. * Opportunity for workations abroad using our WorkFlex tool. * Monthly mobility allowance of €30 to use on the mobility option of your choice (e.g., the Deutschlandticket), plus access to a company bike leasing program. * Company pension scheme, provided in partnership with Degura, to support your future financial security. * Subsidized EGYM WELLPASS membership, with a contribution of only €25 per month, giving you access to a wide range of gyms and sports options across Germany. * Monthly company events, team activities, and informal gatherings, including our popular company-wide lunches provided four days a week.   Not ticking every box or think you’ve got that unique set of skills we haven’t realized we need? Get in touch anyway, we’re always looking to add great people!