Tucked into the crossroads of Southeast and Central Europe, Serbia is the landlocked home of roughly 6.5 million people. With over 3,000 tech companies employing more than 47,000 workers, Serbia’s presence in the software industry is clear. Whether hosting fully distributed teams or a hybrid local presence, these software companies are cultivating innovation in the Western Balkans.
Top Software Companies in Serbia
- Microsoft
- SAP
- EPAM Systems
- Azul
- Luxoft
Top Software Companies in Serbia
Microsoft is a multinational software company famously founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975. In the last nearly 50 years, Microsoft has diversified its software offerings significantly. In service of this growth, the Microsoft Service Center in Belgrade, Serbia was launched in 2005. Its Serbian presence includes Azure data teams, office teams, media group teams, WebXT teams, applied science and math teams.
Founded in 2002 as a hardware appliance company, Azul is now a global software company that develops runtimes — or Java runtime environments (JREs) — for executing Java-based applications. According to its website, Azul is utilized by 100 percent of the world’s top 10 trading companies, 50 percent of Forbes’ “Top 10 World’s Most Valuable Brands,” and 12 percent of the Global 1000. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Azul is made up of a network of distributed teams, including DevOps and engineering teams in Serbia.
Luxoft is a multinational information technology and software company headquartered in Zug, Switzerland. As one of its 21 international locations, Luxoft Serbia specializes in digital strategy and software development for communications, healthcare, banking, auto and retail companies in the area. According to its website, the Serbian arm is crucial to Luxoft’s international endeavors — serving nearly 50 organizations, including Fortune 500 companies.
Headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, SAP is a German multinational software company that develops enterprise software. Since its launch as a data processing software company in 1972, SAP software has evolved to centralize data management in business operations and customer relations. SAP’s Belgrade team is part of an international network of over 100,000 employees from more than 150 countries.
EPAM Systems specializes in software engineering, digital product design and digital platform engineering. It is a founding member of the MACH Alliance, a global nonprofit organization that advocates for open technology ecosystems. According to its website, EPAM is expanding its European presence by way of its Serbian team, which is part of its network of over 52,000 team members.
