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Our engineering organization centers on teams aligned to domain-specific workstreams, supported by a dedicated Platform Engineering group. As part of our fast-scaling engineering organization, you’ll play a key leadership role in developing both the people and the systems behind the products that matter most to our customers.\n\nReporting to a Director of Engineering and collaborating closely with Product, Architecture, and other engineering leaders, you will be accountable for your teams’ outcomes and for shaping the engineering ecosystem – fostering quality, high-performing teams and a smooth flow from concept to production. You will help shape a strong team culture rooted in ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement – supporting engineers to do their best work and teams to deliver real value at speed and scale.\n\nWho We Are\nPollard Digital Solutions - Europe is a full-solution supplier of lottery management and iLottery technology for lottery markets. We’re a division of Pollard Banknote Ltd - a leading partner to 60 lotteries worldwide, known for high-quality instant ticket products, licensed games, retail merchandising solutions, and innovation. Established in 1907 and headquartered in Winnipeg, Canada, Pollard Banknote is publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (PBL).\n\nOur objective is to deliver the most innovative solutions that will render industry-leading returns to good causes in an ethically responsible way. We pride ourselves on a collaborative and inclusive workplace - where creativity, team spirit, and respect are core to how we work.\n\nWhat We Offer:\n\nA truly collaborative and supportive working environment\n\nModern office space with on-site parking\n\nPrivate health insurance\n\nCoverage for medical treatments outside of Serbia\n\nLearning and development budget\n\nProfit sharing – every role plays a part in our success\n\nBudget for sports activities\n\nTeam-building and social activities\n\nEmployee referral bonuses\n\nHybrid work environment\n\nAdditional employee perks\n\nReference: 5K-vhkQEP_PT3Z3YXHH7uH1kgTyWH1mteG2PVmjOknGr4gs0-Qy-LiUMAb-ovMkt\n\nWhat You’ll Do:\n\nLead & grow 1–2 Stream-Aligned teams: coach, mentor and empower engineers while delivering meaningful business outcomes.\n\nFoster continuous delivery & feedback loops: cultivate iterative delivery, rapid feedback and data-driven learning to uphold quality.\n\nShape the roadmap with Product & Architecture: collaborate to scope work, balance near-term goals with long-term sustainability and communicate trade-offs.\n\nDrive engineering excellence: embed testing, observability, performance, maintainability and scalability into everyday work.\n\nOwn delivery management and drive execution excellence: measure and optimize flow, remove bottlenecks and ensure predictable delivery.\n\nScale & nurture the organization: hire, onboard and retain diverse talent, reinforce team health and foster an inclusive engineering culture.\n\nChampion cross-team initiatives: partner with Platform to improve developer experience, reduce friction and support sustainable growth.\n\nManage change & incidents: steer teams calmly through organizational shifts and production issues, protecting focus and morale.\n\nEngage stakeholders: maintain transparent communication, celebrate wins and align expectations across product, design and leadership.\n\nWho You Are:\n\nAn engineer at heart with a solid software development background; confident in technical discussions yet excited to multiply impact through others.\n\nA people-first leader who believes that great products are built by motivated, supported, and empowered teams.\n\nA system thinker who can balance tech debt, delivery velocity, and business value.\n\nA natural collaborator who values transparency, humility, and shared ownership.\n\nComfortable navigating complexity and change, and helping others do the same.\n\nYou understand and are passionate about the principles behind modern software delivery - such as continuous integration, rapid iteration, and scalable architecture - even if you're not the one implementing them day-to-day.\n\nYou lead with empathy but aren't afraid to challenge and hold teams to high standards.\n\nCollaborative by nature - you enjoy working across teams and functions to solve problems and drive outcomes.\n\nWhat You’ll Need:\n\n2+ years of Engineering Manager or similar experience and 7+ years overall in software engineering.\n\nProven success leading autonomous, cross-functional product engineering teams, ideally with hands-on experience applying Team topologies in a scaling environment.\n\nSolid understanding of modern cloud architectures, automated testing, DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.\n\nTrack record of hiring, coaching and retaining engineering talent and developing high-performing, collaborative team dynamics.\n\nExperience working in agile, iterative development environments.\n\nAbility to align engineering execution with product and business goals.\n\nExcellent written and verbal communication and stakeholder management skills.\n\nIf you’re looking to join a company where your technical skills and ideas can make a meaningful impact, we’d love to hear from you. 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