Team Lead Engineering - Finance Automation (f/m/d)
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Job description
Engineering Team Lead for a new Core Platform domain focused on Finance, leading a product-focused engineering team that automates reconciliation, accounting workflows and financial data processing. The role combines people leadership, technical leadership and hands-on coding.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Hybrid · Hamburg, Germany
What you'll do
- Lead a product-focused engineering team that builds and evolves Zeal's core B2B platform capabilities for internal business customers
- Act as the primary partner between Finance and Core Platform Engineering together with the PM, building trusted relationships and translating financial requirements into scalable platform capabilities
- Drive the automation of reconciliation, accounting workflows, and financial data processing, reducing manual effort and increasing operational reliability
- Ensure the reliability, integrity, and auditability of finance-critical data across platform services and infrastructure changes
- 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 the team
- Code as part of the team: regularly write code, contribute to features, and help solve complex technical challenges
- Champion the effective use of AI in the team's engineering workflows (e.g. AI-assisted development and tooling) and explore opportunities to apply AI within the platform's capabilities
- Deliver secure, robust and maintainable technical solutions while focusing on business needs
- Work closely with other teams to align APIs, technical interfaces, and architectural consistency
- Own and operate the domain and the team's microservices
What we're looking for
- Proven people leadership skills, with an empowering style that enables rather than micromanages
- Ability to translate complex business and financial requirements into scalable technical solutions and platform capabilities
- Strong and up-to-date hands-on experience working with Kotlin/Spring Boot, SQL (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 Event-driven processing pipelines built on Kafka
- Strong engineering fundamentals in building secure, scalable, and reliable systems, including security-by-design, resilience patterns, and operating production systems at scale
- Experience with agentic AI development practices and operating models
Your team
Finance Automation team (Core Platform)
A brand-new Core Platform domain focused on Finance; the team builds and evolves Zeal's core B2B platform capabilities for internal business customers.
Benefits
Monthly company events, team activities, and informal gatherings, including company-wide lunches provided four days a week
- State-of-the-art technologies and an agile environment
- 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
- Trust and autonomy, no micromanagement
- 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, plus access to a company bike leasing program
- Company pension scheme, provided in partnership with Degura
- Subsidized EGYM WELLPASS membership, with a contribution of only €25 per month
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About ZEAL Network SE
A dynamic, international group of companies that has been creating exciting and innovative lottery experiences for over 20 years. Germany's largest provider of online lotteries through the brands LOTTO24 and Tipp24, and a trusted partner of Spain's ONCE, the second-largest national lottery. Also home to brands Freiheit+ and Traumhausverlosung, and through ZEAL Ventures invests in e-commerce start-ups like Omaze and DAYMADE.
Mission
Helping people imagine and achieve their aspirations.
Key facts
- 350+ professionals
- Online lotteries
- Germany's largest provider of online lotteries through LOTTO24 and Tipp24
- Trusted partner of Spain's ONCE, the second-largest national lottery
- Over 20 years of creating lottery experiences
- ZEAL Ventures invests in e-commerce start-ups like Omaze and DAYMADE
- Newest brands include Freiheit+ and Traumhausverlosung
Partners & customers
What they value
- Collaboration
- Innovation