Team Lead Engineering - Platform (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 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 leading international provider of online lottery products, operating for over 20 years with brands like LOTTO24 and Tipp24. As Germany’s largest digital lottery operator and a trusted partner of Spain’s ONCE, we are passionate about shaping the future of lottery experiences. LOTTO24 is Germany’s leading online provider of state-licensed lottery products, offering customers convenient and secure access to popular games like LOTTO 6aus49, Eurojackpot, and GlücksSpirale. As a trusted partner of the state lotteries, LOTTO24 ensures that every ticket sold helps support charitable, social, and community projects across Germany. By combining ease of play, trusted security, and meaningful social contributions, LOTTO24 exemplifies ZEAL’s vision of making lottery participation more accessible while giving back to society. As Team Lead Product Management (f/m/d) – Core Platform, you lead a group of Product Managers responsible for domain-based platform services. Your mission is to ensure consistent, high-quality product management across teams and enable the Core Platform to deliver reliable, scalable, and valuable capabilities. YOUR TASKS: * Lead and manage a team of Product Managers within Core Platform, including coaching, mentoring, and supporting their growth in product thinking, execution, and stakeholder management. * Own hiring, onboarding, and career development while fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement. * Ensure strong product management standards across teams, including effective use of roadmaps, prioritization, validation, and documentation. * Drive consistent, outcome-driven product development with high transparency and clarity in decision-making across teams. * Oversee delivery and operational alignment across platform teams to ensure predictable and high-quality execution. * Align planning, prioritization, and execution processes across Product Managers and teams. * Identify and resolve cross-team dependencies, risks, and delivery bottlenecks. * Support teams in balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform investments. * Partner closely with the Lead Product Manager Platform as well as engineering leadership and stakeholders to ensure strong cross-functional collaboration. * Translate Core Platform strategy into clear, actionable direction for Product Managers. WHAT YOU OFFER US: * Proven experience in leading and developing a team of Product Managers, including coaching on product thinking, execution, and stakeholder management. * Strong experience translating strategy into clear product direction and execution across multiple teams. * Experience driving product strategy in complex environments and ensuring clear execution across multiple teams. * Deep product management expertise in prioritization, roadmapping, discovery, validation, and KPI-based decision-making. * Ability to establish and scale consistent, high-quality product processes across teams. * Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to align Product, Engineering, Data, and Business stakeholders. * Solid understanding of platform products (e.g. APIs, services, scalability, reuseability) * Ability to work closely with engineering on technical constraints and architecture trade-offs. * Continuous improvement and impact-oriented mindset, focused on improving processes and delivering meaningful business value. 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!

Appinio

Allow us to introduce ourselves Hello there! We’re Appinio, a global market research company that combines an AI-powered insights platform with expert consultancy. On a mission to make the world a little more fact-based, we help companies understand how consumers think and make smarter decisions. We started out in Hamburg back in 2014, but we’re now humbled to call the world our playground, with over 260 employees spread across 13 countries (we’re remote-first), 2600+ international clients, delivering research from +190 markets, globally. Want to be a part of the Appinio movement? 🚀 Here at Appinio, we value transparency in our recruitment process, and we've created a blog to share what to expect during each step of our journey together: here   Your mission as a Senior IT Administrator (m/f/d) We are looking for a hands-on Senior IT Administrator to manage and continuously improve our internal IT environment. You will take care of day-to-day IT operations, SaaS administration, user access, hardware provisioning, and support processes, ensuring that employees have the tools and systems they need to work securely and efficiently. As the company grows, this role will expand toward broader ownership of our IT systems and processes. You will help define scalable ways of working, automate recurring tasks, improve our security and compliance setup, and shape how internal IT supports the business. This is a strong fit for someone who enjoys practical execution today and wants to take on increasing responsibility over time. Location & working model: This role follows a hybrid model and is based in Hamburg. You’ll be expected to be in the office approximately 2 times per week, depending on tasks and collaboration needs. What you'll do * SaaS Architecture: Lead the administration, configuration, and maintenance of Google Workspace, Slack, ClickUp and other SaaS tools across the business, ensuring compliance with security standards and supporting business operations * Security & Compliance: * Design and maintain a robust IAM framework, overseeing single-sign on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication (MFA) to enable efficient and secure user access provisioning * Configure and enforce security and compliance rules to ensure user endpoint devices are properly secured from threats and meet compliance requirements (e.g. ISO 27001, SOC 2, …) * IT Operations & Automation: * Implement automated workflows across SaaS platforms using APIs and orchestration platforms (e.g. Zapier) to eliminate manual work * Design and implement scalable support workflows and automation to minimize manual overhead, while overseeing complex escalations * Develop and maintain documentation, including IT guides, knowledge base articles, and standard operating procedures * On- and offboard employees, ensuring timely access and hardware provisioning / deprovisioning * Vendor Management: * Manage vendor relationships, negotiate contracts for software licenses and hardware procurement * Support other departments in the onboarding, management and offboarding of department-owned vendors, ensuring that solutions are integrated into the system landscape and meet compliance requirements * Hardware Strategy & Lifecycle Planning: This role involves the entire lifecycle management of company hardware assets * Define the hardware strategy, manage procurement vendor relationships, and establish automated deployment processes to streamline equipment provisioning for our remote-first workforce * Manage IT logistics partnerships for the efficient shipping and reception of equipment * Performing routine maintenance and upgrades for all company-owned IT equipment * Build and maintain an automated, detailed and accurate inventory of all IT assets You will thrive in this role if   Must have: * You have experience in IT administration within a SaaS-heavy environment * You have hands-on experience administering Google Workspace * You are confident working with IAM, SSO, and MFA, and understand identity and access management best practices * You have experience managing macOS devices and endpoint security in a professional setting * You have owned onboarding and offboarding processes, ensuring smooth and secure user access provisioning * You have experience with vendor and IT asset management * You communicate clearly and document processes in a structured and accessible way * You are based in Hamburg, Germany Nice to have: * You have worked with security and compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001 or SOC 2 * You have experience with automation or scripting, including API-based workflows * You have experience administering tools such as HubSpot or ClickUp * You are familiar with remote-first hardware logistics and device provisioning * You have helped build, scale, or improve an IT function from the ground up A few words about the team: You'll join a small, tight-knit team of three. We sit within Appinio's engineering department (~50 people), which means you'll work closely with other engineers - not in a silo.   We take ownership seriously. The team is small by design, so everyone has real autonomy over their domain and a direct line to decision-making. There's no layer of management between you and the work. If you see something broken or a process that could be automated, you're expected to fix it - and you'll have the time and backing to do so.   Automation and tooling are core to how we operate. We're not a click-ops team. Where it makes sense, we script, integrate, and build instead of doing things manually. You don't need to be a developer, but a willingness to write the occasional script will make you much more effective here.   We make an effort to stay connected - regular game nights, knowledge-sharing sessions with the wider engineering org, and team meet ups. What’s in it for you? * Flexibility Policy - Average is 30 days taken, however, we do not have a hard cap of number of vacation days as we know life happens * Temporary work from abroad - You can work outside your country of residence for up to 180 days per year * All the hardware you need and your own MacBook * You'll get a Deutschland ticket or access to a mobility budget with the NAVIT app to get you to and from the office space * Subsidised Urban Sports Club membership * You will get access to our Co-working spaces Our interview process * Screening Call with Hiring Manager * Case Interview with Team Lead and Head of IT Infrastructure * (Optional) Team Interview  * Executive Interview  * Reference Check  * Offer  Kind reminder: Please ensure that your application is submitted in English. This post not only outlines our ideal candidate but also serves as an inspiration for what this role can evolve into. Even if you consider yourself an 80% fit but have a genuine passion for this position, we encourage you to apply. We're eager to hear from individuals who share our enthusiasm. Appinio is an equal-opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status. Please read our privacy policy here. Learn more about us:  appinio.com    LinkedIn    Xing     Kununu    Instagram