At PPRO, our mission is to simplify access to local payment methods and our vision is to enable the sale of goods and services to anyone in the world using their preferred way to pay. We empower partners such as Ant Group, PayPal and Stripe to access new markets, connect with more customers, and accelerate their growth.
Our strength comes from our diverse global team, spread across multiple nationalities and international locations. We're united by a shared passion for building trusted relationships with our customers and creating next-generation products that make payments simpler, faster, and more accessible to everyone.
Everything we do is driven by our PPRO Principles: putting the customer-first, getting things done, acting with trust and integrity, continuous improvement, and teamwork. Join us on our journey to become a global digital payments leader.
The Purpose:
As a Engineering Manager for the Transaction Processing domain you’ll be leading a team of accomplished engineers to expand PPRO’s portfolio with new related products alongside your Product Manager counterpart.
Engineering Managers at PPRO have the passion and abilities to build collaborative teams that deliver high-quality, scalable and performant products. Think of yourself as the hands-on “mini-CTO” of a small startup within the supportive environment of PPRO, where you can succeed, fail and learn together as part of a team.
You will set direction, support your team's career growth, ensure they have an inspiring vision for the future and work alongside them in the code. In doing so, you can play a part to enable financial inclusion whilst promoting global eCommerce.
What you will be doing:
- Work in partnership with your Product Manager counterpart to develop new integrations and cards features in our payments platform.
- Develop and drive the technology strategy for your product.
- Inspire, coach and mentor engineers’ growth and success, helping them to find and develop their strengths.
- Collaborate with stakeholders and customers to identify the most significant opportunity areas for your product.
- Set clear expectations and goals for your team and measure impact.
- Lead by example and work close to the code, making informed decisions while you identify technical risks.
- Facilitate technical discussions, help guide resolutions and navigate trade-offs.
- Own operational excellence for your product, establishing metrics and processes for regular assessment and improvement.
- Lead your team like a startup - succeed, fail and learn together .
You will need to have:
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work with a diverse group of stakeholders.
- Humble and inclusive leadership style.
- Experience in developing, mentoring and growing a high performing collaborative and diverse team.
- Results-orientation, collaborative, pragmatic, and with a continuous improvement mindset.
- Desire to spend ~50% of your time close to the code.
- Ability to analyse and articulate tradeoffs of technical problems to a broad audience.
- Experience designing and building scalable products and services.
- Experience working with one or more general-purpose programming languages including, but not limited to Java.
- Experience with the cloud (preferably AWS, but Azure or GCP will also do).
- Ability to collaborate and communicate influencing decisions where you might not have direct authority and always with inclusive, adaptable, and persuasive data-backed communication.
- Working proficiency in English.
Tech Stack:
- Java and Spring Boot
- Cloud-native microservice architecture on AWS
- Docker and Kubernetes
- Event-driven architectures
- Infrastructure-as-Code, e.g., Terraform
What's in it for you?:
Hybrid working - We offer flexible working, so you can strike the right balance between office and home working. In addition to our 30-day holiday allowance, we also provide a work from abroad policy, enabling employees to work remotely for up to another 30 days per year.
Insurance - Because better safe than sorry - we want our employees to benefit from various insurances including accident insurance, disability insurance, direct insurance (bAV) and travel insurance.
Gym membership - PPRO helps contribute towards the costs of your gym membership, supporting your physical fitness journey while easing the burden on your wallet
Professional and personal development - We provide leadership cafes, on-the-job training, and access to LinkedIn learning to help you gain knowledge beyond your role. We also offer German language courses to our non native speakers employees.
Mental Health Platform - We’ve teamed up with a top well-being platform to provide one-on-one therapy, chat therapy, therapist-led courses, guided meditations, and more.
Our Principles:
We get things done: We are courageous; we take ownership, make decisions and get things done.
We act with trust and integrity: We listen first and challenge respectfully. We seek out and leverage diverse perspectives. We welcome and offer honest and open feedback, always assuming positive intent
We put the customer first: We are laser focused on delivering outstanding outcomes for our customers. We put the customer at the heart of what we do.
We make things better: We boldly explore new ideas and have an unwavering commitment to continuous improvement.
We work as a team: We collaborate closely and value team success over individual achievement.
