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. 3 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
Do you want to join us in bringing our customer-facing analytics, monitoring, and self-service cockpit to the next level? We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a passion for quality and good architecture.
Join us in building the experience for the business customers of our high-performing streaming product and the upcoming streaming-as-a-service platform!
THE BRIDGE TEAM
The Bridge platform, built by the Bridge Squad, offers our B2B customers everything they need to run a successful streaming product. It offers a variety of data insights, deep-dives, and analytics about usage and quality of experience. Additionally, it provides transparency of the customer’s product configuration, tooling for resolving support issues, messaging, and much more.
We are currently working on offering full configurability, extended data insights, and we have many more exciting things on the horizon for making Bridge the best-in-industry self-service cockpit!
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Architect, develop and maintain the core functionality in a cross-functional stream-aligned squad, alongside Backend and Frontend engineers, a Product Manager and a Product Designer, and an Engineering Manager
- Build data-driven features, integrating with various data tools (ElasticSearch, ClickHouse and other APIs)
- Improve and maintain quality standards through clean code and proven engineering practices
- Help identify and solve challenging problems, creating an awesome experience for our business customers
- Drive innovation through collaboration with other squads at Zattoo to transform their data, insights and configuration into value-driving features in Bridge
- Involve principal engineers to continuously improve technical architecture and code quality standards
- Work in an environment that supports your individual growth
- Become a valued member of Zattoo’s Engineering team and improve our core services
WHAT YOU’LL BRING
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer
- High-level proficiency in Python 3 for scalable SAAS applications (preferably with FastAPI)
- Passion for quality and deep understanding of how to reach high standards through sound engineering practices like test automation and CI
- Solid understanding of systems design, data structures, and algorithms
- Experience with frontend technologies like React/TypeScript and Material UI
- Experience in building highly available services and APIs
- Good understanding of and experience with different data stores and data processing pipelines (Elasticsearch, Redis, Postgres, Scylla, Clickhouse, Kafka)
- Proactive team player mindset, focus on delivering value to users, and passion for your craft
- Drive to continuously improve team processes
- Impact through your communication skills and love for sharing your knowledge with others, helping them grow
- Fluency in verbal and written English
Bonus:
- Startup experience
- Solid hands-on experience with TDD and CD
- Experience with micro-frontends and monorepos
- Experience with service-oriented event-driven architectures
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, team sports, organic fruit, vegan options 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.
You can learn more about us at: https://zattoo.com
Top Skills
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
