Senior Engineering Manager (Python/React)

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 the world’s first certified climate neutral TV streaming provider. 3 million users across three countries. Over 230 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.

THE ROLE

Do you want to help Zattoo make our Streaming-as-a-Service product fully manageable, by our customers as well as internal users? We are searching for a Senior Engineering Manager who can lead a cross-functional team, with a tech stack of Python in the backend and React in the frontend, which builds the B2B customer-facing product cockpit called The Bridge.

THE BRIDGE TEAM

The Bridge tool, built by the Bridge team, is the interface for our B2B customers to everything they need to run a successful streaming product. The Bridge covers all aspects of customer service needs as well as deeper quality of experience, insights and analytics. In addition, the tool provides transparency of the customer’s product configuration. Customers can use it also to reach out to their users and to customize and personalize their product experience.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Influence and help with the technical design of the technical architecture of our Python backends and React frontends
• Help with the migration of the Bridge Backend from Ruby to Python
• Ensure high quality and reliability of the technical products we build
• Be accountable for your team’s delivery of customer-facing tooling as well as internal configuration tooling
• Directly manage 4-6 engineers
• Collaborate with the Product and Design Leads of Bridge and Config teams to define outcomes
• Represent the teams toward the Head of Engineering (capacity planning, budgeting, team development)
• Grow, develop and retain engineering talents

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

• 3 years experience in leading cross-functional engineering teams
• Experience in building customer facing products in teams that aim for end-to-end ownership of what they build
• Proven experience in technologies Python 3 and React
• Experience in building highly available services and APIs that scale and work efficiently even under the highest load
• Good understanding and experience of different data stores and data processing pipelines (Elasticsearch, Redis, MySQL, Scylla, Clickhouse, Kafka)
• Be a role model leader and help others to grow
• Experience in testing on different levels and a mindset that sees testing as a foundational part of software development
• Experience working in Scrum teams
• Fluent verbal and written English language and communication skills
• Bonus:
  • Experience with migrating Ruby backends to Python
  • Proficient skills and DevOps mentality with on-prem and cloud hosting experience
  • Experience with tooling for dynamic configuration management

WHY JOIN US?

At Zattoo, you’re always on firm ground with real freedom to explore. You’ll have the support and opportunity you need to go far, while you’re helping us create a sustainable and entertainment-filled future for all.

WHAT WE OFFER YOU

• 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, team sports, organic fruit, vegan options 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 the future of TV.