Engineering Manager Ads Backend

About the Position

Engineering Manager Ads Backend

Berlin, Germany

YOUR FUTURE, ON DEMAND

The ideal blend of stability and flexibility. A genuinely human employer that cares for people and the planet. True autonomy to shape what comes next, for us and you. This is the perfect platform to take your career where you want.

Back in 2005, we pioneered Europe’s first TV streaming service. Today, we're a leading TV streaming provider with millions of monthly users, and since 2021 we've been ClimatePartner-certified. Over 200 colleagues of 47 nationalities. We’re the grown-up start-up, helping to shape a better future since day one. That hasn’t changed, even if the world has. We’re friendly, international, inclusive – and our people say we’re reliable and transparent, too. It’s why they trust us and believe in what we do.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Ads Backend team, organizationally and technically
• Own the technical vision and architecture of our SSAI platform, with the senior developers
• Contribute hands-on as technical lead: review designs, raise the bar by example, and step into critical code when needed
• Own the end-to-end development process and operational excellence for revenue-impacting services
• Help shape the technical direction of Zattoo’s broader video platform, with the other video teams and our Principal Engineers
• Drive cross-team initiatives spanning across multiple video teams
• Represent the team to stakeholders
• Directly manage 2 – 4 engineers and lead hiring
• Grow, develop, and retain engineering talent

Requirements

• 5+ years leading engineering teams
• Strong, current hands-on engineering: you can design, build, and review production code and act as technical lead
• Proficient in C++/Go
• Experience building highly available services and APIs that scale
• Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures and message queues (e.g. Kafka), and non-relational databases (e.g. Scylla)
• Testing is a fundamental part of how you build software
• Fluent English, written and verbal
• Experience with advertising technology platforms, ad serving, and dynamic ad insertion (DAI/SSAI)
• Broad experience across the video pipeline (ingest, transcoding, packaging, DRM, streaming, playback)

We Offer

• Reward: strong market competitive salary
• Recharge: 30 days vacation plus public holidays
• Regulate: trust-based flexible working hours and the option for remote work worldwide for up to 8 weeks per year

Plus:

• We’re sharing: Free access to the best streaming experience on the market
• We're developing: Your own development budget, German classes and Zattoo all-company hack days
• We’re inclusive: ‘Zattooies’ are a fun, engaged, and diverse team made up of 47 nationalities
• We’re healthy: Health checks, mental wellbeing support, team sports and more!
• We’re responsible: We are carbon neutral, an active employee Green team, discounted BVG tickets and free bike rentals
• We’re sociable: A calendar of events with fireside chats, lunches, in-house bar, BBQ’s, monthly socials, summer party and an annual off-site event

Zattoo enables our users to view indiscriminately and we reflect that in our team too. Regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, disability or any other characteristic protected by law we encourage everyone to apply and will give everyone equal consideration. We are an equal opportunities employer - join us and help build a diverse team dedicated to revolutionising the way you watch TV.

We are committed to ensuring fair, open, and equitable hiring practices and are happy to answer any questions you may have about us or the role throughout the whole process. In line with the EU Pay Transparency Directive, we share the applicable compensation range with you before your first interview.

You can learn more about us at: https://zattoo.com