Team Lead Engineering - Fraud Prevention (f/m/d)

ZEAL Network SE is a dynamic, international group of companies creating lottery experiences for over 20 years, including the brands LOTTO24, Tipp24, Freiheit+ and Traumhausverlosung. Your team's mission is to own Zeal's Fraud Prevention & Player Protection domain as part of the Core Platform: fraud detection and automated blocking across the customer lifecycle, dunning and debt collection, AML, and responsible gambling. As Tech Lead, you translate risk, regulatory, and player-protection requirements into scalable platform capabilities that keep operations compliant and reliable.

Responsibilities

Lead a product-focused engineering team that builds and evolves Zeal's core B2B platform capabilities for internal business customers; Hire, build and lead a team of 2 engineers, fostering an ownership-driven and reliability-focused engineering culture; Evaluate and introduce fraud detection and prevention platform; Lead technically and strategically, define and drive architectural decisions together with your team; Code as part of the team, contributing to features and solving complex technical challenges; Champion the effective use of AI in engineering workflows and explore opportunities to apply AI within the platform's capabilities; Act as a sparring partner for Product Management and internal businesses to define and drive product and tech strategy; Deliver secure, robust and maintainable technical solutions focusing on great customer experiences and business needs; Drive collaboration with other teams to align APIs, technical interfaces, and architectural consistency; Own and operate the domain and the team's microservices

Requirements

Proven people leadership skills, with an empowering style that enables rather than micromanages; Strong and up-to-date hands-on experience working with Kotlin/Spring Boot, Mongo/PostgresDB; A "You build it, you run it" mindset, with experience in deploying, monitoring, and maintaining microservices on Kubernetes; Strong understanding of how to create and evolve REST-APIs that clients like to use and event-driven processing pipelines built on Kafka; Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions, and to align diverse stakeholders; Strong engineering fundamentals in building secure, scalable, and reliable systems, including security-by-design, resilience patterns, and operating production systems at scale; Experience with agentic AI development practices and operating models

Benefits

State-of-the-art technologies and an agile environment; A modern, dynamic culture; A talented team of ambitious, like-minded colleagues; Annual development budget of €1,500 for professional development; Trust and autonomy, no micromanagement; Flexible work options with a hybrid setup focused on results; Unlimited vacation days in addition to a yearly 30-day vacation allowance; Opportunity for workations abroad using the WorkFlex tool; Monthly mobility allowance of €30 plus access to a company bike leasing program; Company pension scheme provided in partnership with Degura; Subsidized EGYM WELLPASS membership with a contribution of €25 per month; Monthly company events, team activities, and informal gatherings; Company-wide lunches provided four days a week