Engineering Team Lead

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.

Traumhausverlosung is one of ZEAL’s newest and most exciting brands. It gives players the chance to win stunning, fully furnished dream homes through an accessible, thrilling lottery format, while supporting a good cause. Every ticket sold not only offers participants the opportunity to transform their lives, but also contributes to charitable projects, making a real difference in communities across Germany. By combining the excitement of winning with a meaningful social impact, Traumhausverlosung reflects ZEAL’s commitment to innovation, social responsibility, and offering customers more than just a game, but a chance to do good while dreaming big.

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 engineering team. You drive architectural and technical decisions together with your team while actively contributing to the codebase and solving complex challenges. In close collaboration with Product Management and UX, you help shape product and technology strategies that balance business goals, customer experience, and technical excellence. With a pragmatic and ownership-driven mindset, you foster cross-team collaboration, enable your team to thrive, and ensure the delivery of scalable, maintainable, and impactful solutions.

Your tasks:

• Lead, mentor, and develop engineers, including performance management, feedback, and professional growth

• 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

• Act as a sparrings partner for product management and UX, working closely with them to define and drive product and tech strategies

• Bridge architecture, product and UX: Deliver 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

• Prioritize intelligently: Balance technical ambition with pragmatic delivery, and work closely with product, UX and other stakeholders to reduce internal friction

What you offer us:

• Proven people leadership skills with the ability to develop others and build trust

• Empowering leadership style that enables rather than micromanages

• Leadership experience in managing an engineering team (ideally in a cross-functional context)

• Strong and up-to-date hands-on experience working with Next.js (App Router, Server Functions, Server Components), TypeScript, and HTML5/CSS3

• “You build it, you run it” mindset and experience in deploying, monitoring, and maintaining a web application

• Experience in e-commerce environments

• Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions

• Excellent organizational and prioritization skills in dynamic settings

• Strong communication skills with the ability to align diverse stakeholders

• Proactive, ownership-driven mindset

What we offer you:

• 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 €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!