Team Lead Engineering - Platform (f/m/d)

YOUR TASKS:

• You lead a platform-focused engineering team responsible for building reliable, scalable shared services that enable all product teams
• 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 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
• Champion the effective use of AI in your team's engineering workflows (e.g. AI-assisted development and tooling) and explore opportunities to apply AI within the platform's capabilities
• Establish and drive reliability practices: Design and implement monkey testing and load testing strategies to proactively identify weaknesses and continuously improve platform resilience and stability
• Own prioritization and backlog: Balance reliability, tech debt, operational, and business demands with stakeholders across Core, Product, and Platform, keeping a transparent roadmap focused on the highest-value work.
• Own core technical services: Take end-to-end ownership of internally developed platform services such as Auth Service, API Gateway, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and easy to consume
• Act as the bridge between domains: Collaborate closely with Core domain teams and the Platform team to understand needs, identify gaps, and provide efficient, reusable technical solutions
• Enable data and event flows: Own and evolve solutions core technical tracking infrastructure, ensuring reliable and scalable event collection and forwarding to downstream systems
• Deliver secure, robust and maintainable technical solutions while focusing on great customer experiences and business needs

WHAT YOU OFFER US:

• Proven people leadership skills with the ability to grow teams from early stage to high performance
• Strong hands-on engineering background in Kotlin/Spring Boot, Mongo/PostgresDB ideally paired with DevOps experience
• Experience designing and operating reliable, scalable distributed systems, including resilience patterns and failure handling
• Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, and performance testing including load/monkey testing
• Experience building and evolving internal platform services and APIs that are easy for other teams to consume
• “You build it, you run it” mindset with hands-on experience running services in Kubernetes-based environments
• Ability to balance standardization vs. team autonomy
• Strong collaboration and alignment skills across multiple engineering teams and stakeholders from other deparments
• Pragmatic, ownership-driven mindset with a focus on enabling others and reducing complexity
• Strong engineering fundamentals in building secure, scalable, and reliable systems, including security-by-design, resilience patterns, and operating production systems at scale.

WHAT WE OFFER:

• 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 €1,500 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.

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Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis), table; dl-de/by-2-0; StarIn's calculation

Posted Nov 01, 2026