Job description
Senior Engineering Manager
Company Overview
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.
Job Summary
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.
Key Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements / Qualifications
- 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
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with Python/Django, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, or similar stacks
Location
Berlin, Germany
Employment Type
Full Time
Salary & Benefits
- 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
- Free access to the best streaming experience on the market
- Development budget, German classes and hackdays
- Health checks, mental wellbeing support, team sports and more
- Carbon neutral practices, discounted BVG tickets and free bike rentals
- Social events: fireside chats, lunches, in-house bar, BBQ’s, monthly socials, summer party and an annual off-site event
Equal Opportunity Statement
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.
