Engineering Manager Core Experience - UK/IR Market
As a Mobile Application Engineering Manager within Platform Product, the successful candidate will lead a team of Mobile Engineers responsible for delivering customer-facing experiences for the UK and Ireland market. This is a people-first leadership role focused on building, coaching, and empowering a high-performing engineering team while partnering with Product, Design, and key business stakeholders to deliver high-quality software in a fast-moving, highly regulated environment.
The team plays a critical role in delivering features that improve the customer journey, with a particular focus on Responsible Gaming, Customer Onboarding, and regulatory compliance. Alongside delivering business outcomes, the Engineering Manager will help shape engineering culture, improve development practices, and create an environment where engineers can do their best work.
Working across multiple disciplines, the manager will collaborate with Engineering, Product, Legal, Compliance, and Operations to ensure LeoVegas continues to deliver secure, scalable, and engaging experiences for millions of customers.
- Lead, coach and develop a high-performing team of Mobile Engineers, supporting their growth through regular feedback, mentoring and career development.
- Create an inclusive, collaborative environment where engineers feel empowered to innovate, learn and continuously improve.
- Partner closely with Product Managers to define priorities, shape roadmaps and deliver valuable customer outcomes.
- Drive the successful delivery of regulatory initiatives across the UK and Ireland market while balancing customer experience, technical quality and business priorities.
- Work with engineers to improve engineering practices, delivery processes and technical quality across the team.
- Support technical decision-making by facilitating architectural discussions, removing delivery risks and encouraging pragmatic engineering solutions.
- Collaborate with Engineering Managers and technical leaders across Platform to share knowledge, align priorities and improve how we build software.
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders across Engineering, Legal, Compliance, Operations and Product to ensure successful delivery.
- Recruit, retain and develop exceptional engineering talent, helping to build a diverse and engaged engineering organisation.
- Foster a culture of ownership, continuous improvement and operational excellence.
- 3+ years' experience leading and developing software engineering teams (required)
- Experience delivering customer-facing software products in an agile environment (required)
- Provide Technical and Professional Leadership (required)
- A track record of building high-performing, engaged engineering teams (required)
- Strong delivery leadership, balancing product priorities, technical quality and team wellbeing (required)
- A coaching mindset with a passion for developing people and helping others succeed, across several countries / cities (required)
- A coaching mindset with a passion for developing people and helping others succeed (required)
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence at all levels of the organisation (required)
- Experience leading mobile engineering teams, particularly React Native (nice-to-have)
- Project Management Experience (nice-to-have)
- Experience working in regulated industries such as iGaming, fintech or financial services (nice-to-have)
- HR experience / worked closely with HR to provide a stable and productive work environment (nice-to-have)
- Experience driving engineering improvements, delivery excellence or organisational change (nice-to-have)
- Hybrid working - 3 days per week at the office, with flexibility for 2 days at home
- Workation - Take your job on an adventure with our Workation benefit for up to 4 weeks per year
- 28 days of paid leave, plus all public and bank holidays in England
- Pension contributions matched up to 6%
- Comprehensive healthcare - BUPA coverage, including pre-existing conditions, plus a cashback plan for dental, optical, and other treatments
- Wellbeing allowance - £250 annual allowance
- A great workplace experience - Talented colleagues, free onsite parking, complimentary snacks and drinks, Monday breakfasts, and Friday lunches
- A social culture - Regular opportunities to attend sporting events throughout the year, plus a quarterly team budget
- Support for growing families - Up to 6 months of full pay for maternity leave
- Stay active and save money - Cycle-to-work scheme and gym discounts
LeoVegas Group is a Swedish mobile-first iGaming company founded in 2011, headquartered in Stockholm with its main operational hub in Sliema, Malta. A pioneer of mobile casino, it operates online casino and sportsbook products across regulated markets through brands including LeoVegas, BetUK, Expekt, Pink Casino and GoGo Casino. In 2022 the group was acquired by MGM Resorts International and now serves as MGM's international online-gaming arm, having previously been listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.