Engineering Team Lead – Project & Construction

Acumatica is looking for a Team Lead to join our Project & Construction team in Belgrade, Serbia!

Position Overview

In this position, you will lead a cross-functional squad (~10 engineers, QA, UX, and business analysts) responsible for the Project & Construction module of the Acumatica Cloud ERP. You will own delivery of roadmap features end-to-end (from discovery to customer adoption), while growing talent, improving flow efficiency, and ensuring world-class product quality and reliability.

Reporting & Growth

This role reports to the Senior Director of Development and offers a growth path to Senior Engineering Manager or Director. Acumatica provides a comprehensive benefits package and professional-development allowance.

Key Responsibilities

Building and managing software product team that performs product development based on the Acumatica cloud platform.

Leadership & People  

• Recruit, onboard, and retain top talent
• Set clear OKRs and career paths
• Foster a culture of psychological safety, DEI, and continuous learning

Product & Stakeholder management            

• Partnering with Product Management to shape backlog and quarterly goals
• Participating in elaboration of software requirements
• Translating epics into actionable stories and technical designs
• Communicating progress, risks, and trade-offs to execs & customers

Engineering Excellence            

• Defining and tracking KPI’s for the team
• Driving modern SDLC (Scrum/Kanban + DevSecOps)
• Championing test automation (unit, integration, contract, E2E)
• Enforcing design & code reviews, RFCs, and architectural decision records
• Providing technical consulting and issues investigation.

Quality, Security & Compliance

• Executing the development lifecycle from requirements analysis, feasibility estimates, design, code, and testing
• Following the company standards and engineering processes
• Tracking escaped-defect rate, MTTR, and availability
• Analyzing and taking action on the regressions rate and customer satisfaction

Cross-Functional Collaboration           

• Coordinating with UX, Tech Docs, Support, Customer Success
• Participate in customer advisory sessions and beta programs for new features
• Managing concurrent projects and engineering staff to ensure project timing is maintained

Continuous Improvement       

• Facilitating blameless post-mortems, root-cause analysis, and kaizen workshops
• Objectively evaluating team performance and developing resources