Engineering Team Lead/ Project Manager

Job description

**GR8_TECH builds B2B iGaming platforms for operators who play to lead.** We deliver full-cycle, high-impact tech designed to scale — from seamless integrations and expert consulting to long-term operational support. Our platform powers millions of active players and drives real business growth. Call it what it is: the iGaming Platform for Champions. With 1000+ GR8 people across locations and time zones, we don’t just ship technology — we help operators build success stories across brands, markets, and geos. **Our ambition drives us. Our people make it real.** If you’re a challenger in spirit and a champion in action — join us. ## Why this role exists: The purpose of this role is to deliver consistent team outputs and outcomes through predictable execution, operational efficiency, and people performance within a single team. The role directly contributes to stream-level business value by ensuring the team reliably produces high-quality deliverables aligned with stream priorities. It combines delivery ownership with people leadership to build a sustainable, high-performing team capable of growing with business demands. ## What you’ll drive: **Delivery ownership and execution** - Own predictable, on-time delivery within the team, balancing speed, quality, and sustainability. - Track delivery progress, manage end-to-end initiatives, handle ambiguous requirements, and address risks, blockers, and dependencies. - Partner with Head of Stream, Tech Lead, and Product Managers to align priorities, technical standards, and scope trade-offs. - Provide regular visibility into team progress, risks, and trade-offs to stakeholders. **Process improvement and quality assurance** - Continuously improve team delivery processes, reducing friction, bottlenecks, and the cost of change. - Ensure team compliance with operational standards, SLA adherence, and adoption of stream-level processes and AI-driven solutions. - Own deliverable quality for reliability, performance, and maintainability, ensuring capacity is allocated for technical debt reduction in collaboration with Tech Lead. **People leadership and team development** - Directly manage team members, conduct 1:1s, own the performance cycle, set clear goals, and execute PDPs. - Drive team engagement, psychological safety, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and onboarding. - Participate in the hiring process by defining team needs, interviewing, and making hiring recommendations. **Resource and capacity management** - Optimize team capacity, workload distribution, and on-call rotations to maximize throughput and prevent burnout. - Own team-level capacity planning and flag resource gaps to the Head of Stream. ## What makes you a GR8 fit: **Must-have** - 3+ years of experience in engineering delivery management and people leadership, including direct management of a software development team in a product or platform environment. - Practical project and delivery management expertise with adaptable methodologies. - Understanding of team-level resource planning and capacity management. - Familiarity with engineering practices, CI/CD, and quality assurance processes. - Ability to work with data and metrics to drive decisions and improve performance. - Strong stakeholder management and cross-team coordination skills across product, engineering, and delivery teams. - English language proficiency at B2+ level. - Ukrainian or Russian language proficiency at B2 level. ## **Why you’ll love working here:** **Benefits Cafeteria** — annual budget you allocate to: Sports • Medical • Mental health • Home office • Languages. **Work-life & support** - Paid maternity/paternity leave + monthly childcare allowance. - 20+ vacation days, unlimited sick leave, emergency time off. - Remote-first + tech support + coworking compensation. - Team events (online/offline/offsite). - Learning culture with internal courses + growth programs. ## **Our culture & core values:** GR8_TECH culture is how we win — through trust, ownership, and a growth mindset. We move fast, stay curious, and keep it real, with open feedback, room to experiment, and a team that’s got your back. **FUELLED BY TRUST**: we’re open, honest, and have each other’s backs. **OWN YOUR GAME**: we take initiative and own what we do. **ACCELER8**: we move fast, focus smart, and keep it simple. **CHALLENGE ACCEPTED**: we grow through challenges and stay curious. **BULLETPROOF**: we’re resilient, ready, and always have a plan.