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
Video is the heart of all Zattoo’s services: thousands of 24/7 live TV channels plus on-demand content from dozens of providers. The Ads Backend team turns that content into a personalised, revenue-generating advertising experience.
As an Engineering Manager, you enable your team to do their best work: approachable, a good listener, and a strong facilitator of ideas and knowledge. You bring your own ideas for improving the architecture and extending what our systems can do.
This is a hands-on leadership role. We want a manager who is also a strong engineer, someone who acts as technical lead, dives into the code and architecture when it matters, and sets direction by example.
Ads Backend is your home base, not the limit of your influence. We expect you to collaborate deeply with the Ingest & Storage, Streaming & CDN, and Playback teams, help define the technical direction of video across Zattoo, and join cross-team initiatives.
THE ADS BACKEND TEAM
The team owns Zattoo’s in-house Server-Side Ad Insertion (SSAI) solution: the whole ad pipeline, from deciding which ads to show to tracking every impression, built as a suite of services serving viewers at scale. These are business-critical services with a direct revenue impact, and we collaborate closely with our sister teams (Ingest & Storage, Streaming & CDN, Playback) and commercial and ad operations stakeholders.
We’re about to take SSAI to the next level: a major re-architecture. It’s the team’s flagship challenge ahead, and one we want this hire to help lead from the front.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- 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
WHAT YOU’LL BRING
- 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)
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, 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
Skills Required
- 5+ years leading engineering teams
- Strong, current hands-on engineering ability to design, build, and review production code
- Proficient in C++ and Go
- Experience building highly available services and scalable APIs
- Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures and message queues (e.g., Kafka)
- Experience with non-relational databases (e.g., Scylla)
- Strong testing practices and test-driven development emphasis
- 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)
- Experience managing and hiring engineers (directly manage 2-4 engineers)
What We Do
We are one of the leading TV streaming providers in Europe with several million monthly users, serving both B2B and DTC markets. Founded in 2005, we have more than 250 employees and are headquartered in Zurich with another location in Berlin and remote presences in Europe and North America. With our DTC business, users in Switzerland, Germany and Austria watch a variety of TV channels as well as a selection of video-on-demand content on almost all available devices via the Zattoo apps. Since 2012, we have also been running our own B2B business, making our technology available to media companies and network operators as an international TV-as-a-Service platform. Zattoo strives to satisfy existing customers and users and attract new ones by offering state of the art TV features with a superior user experience across many devices and platforms. For our achievements as a TV streaming pioneer, we were awarded the Technology and Engineering Emmy® Award by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for 2020, among others. We act responsibly: We have been carbon neutral since 2020. We are taking active action to further reduce our carbon footprint. As the first TV streaming provider worldwide, we therefore even operate one of our data centres directly in a wind turbine. We are growing and we are looking for new team members. If you like space for creativity, want to feel empowered, if you prefer an atmosphere of continuous learning and trust based working then Zattoo is the right place for you. We have a culture of embracing mistakes as a measure of learning and a very respectful style of working together. At Zattoo we can be ourselves and simply do what we are best at
