Senior Engineering Manager

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. Several 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

Orchestrate is Zattoo's modern IPTV/OTT middleware — powering both our own B2C streaming services and the B2B operators who build their TV products on top of it. It's live in production, onboarding new operators, and replacing Zattoo's legacy middleware.

Lead the backend team through this growth phase — with real ownership over the platform's technical direction and the ability to navigate the complexity of a multi-tenant platform with real customers depending on it.

THE ORCHESTRATE TEAM

A cross-functional team of senior backend and full-stack engineers, product managers, and designers. The stack is Python/Django, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes. Each operator runs on their own isolated instance with independent lifecycle and data boundaries.

The team is the operational owner of the platform — spanning client-facing and operator-facing APIs, an operator management console, a developer portal, and integrations across streaming, content, identity, and data systems. Other teams across the organization contribute to the codebases of the platform and collaborate on shaping APIs and integrations.

You won't be starting alone: the current engineering lead will partner with you as co-EM during ramp-up and remain connected to the team long-term.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Partner with senior engineers on API design, architecture, and multi-tenant trade-offs — provide context, clear the path, and let experienced people do their best work

• Collaborate with product managers and designers to shape the management console, developer portal, and integration experience for operators

• Drive the quality of APIs, documentation, and onboarding so both internal and external partners can integrate smoothly and independently

• Champion technical debt, platform reliability, and operational needs on the roadmap — while product shapes what gets built, ensure how it's built is sustainable

• Coach and develop engineers in their careers, and hire people who raise the bar

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

• 7+ years in backend engineering, with experience leading teams — ideally in platform, API, or infrastructure contexts

• Designed APIs, built distributed systems, or operated multi-tenant platforms at scale

• A strong sense for integration quality — how external partners experience your platform matters to you

• Navigated competing priorities across engineering, product, and business stakeholders

• Strong communication skills in English

• Experience with IPTV/OTT, media streaming, or B2B platform products

• Bonus: Familiarity with Python/Django, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, or similar stacks

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 hackdays
• **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 the future of TV.