Vice President, Engineering
PPRO
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Berlin • Germany
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About the role
- Provide leadership, vision, and executional ownership across PPRO’s engineering organization.
- Partner closely with Technology Leadership, Product Leadership, Domain Leads, and the Executive Team.
- Ensure PPRO’s engineering capabilities power world-class, secure, and scalable payment products while accelerating product innovation and delivery.
- Lead engineering to deliver transformative products.
- Shape how engineering enables rapid expansion of payment capabilities, reduces customer integration complexity, and strengthens PPRO’s position in the global payments ecosystem.
- Drive Product AI innovation, applying AI to improve product performance, intelligence, and customer outcomes.
- Increase adoption of AI-enabled tools across the engineering organization to enhance developer productivity, quality, and delivery speed.
- Coach and empower leaders, embed a culture of ownership and accountability, and ensure engineering delivers high-impact outcomes in a regulated, transaction-critical environment.
Requirements
- Proven experience setting engineering direction and leading leaders across complex product and platform environments.
- Proven experience setting strategic vision and engineering direction, leading "leaders of leaders" (VPs and Directors) and scaling high-performing cultures.
- Strong ability to prioritise, make high-stake trade-offs and unite senior stakeholders to drive outcomes through empowered teams.
- Experience delivering high-quality, customer-facing products in regulated or high-availability environments (payments experience a plus, not a prerequisite).
- Strong technical foundation with the ability to engage credibly on architecture, platforms, and engineering practices when needed.
- Expertise in cloud-native architectures, microservices ecosystems (e.g. Java, Spring Boot, AWS), and modern engineering platforms.
- Clear passion for using AI to improve both products and engineering effectiveness.
- Data-driven, outcome-oriented leadership mindset with strong cross-functional influence.
- Clear, candid communicator with the presence to operate effectively at executive level.
Benefits
- Hybrid working - We offer a hybrid structure with a 3 days / week on site expectation, so you can strike the balance between office and home working.
- 30-day holiday allowance
- Work from abroad policy, enabling employees to work remotely for up to another 30 days per year.
- €1,000 annual budget to support your professional growth.
- Leadership cafés, on-the-job training, and other opportunities to help you grow your skills and thrive in your role.
- Insurance including accident insurance, disability insurance, direct insurance (bAV) and travel insurance.
- Gym membership - PPRO helps contribute towards the costs of your gym membership.
- Enhanced family leave to support you during key life moments.
- Mental health platform providing one-on-one therapy, chat therapy, therapist-led courses, guided meditations, and more.
- Pet-friendly office.
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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud-native architecturesmicroservicesJavaSpring BootAIarchitectureengineering practicesproduct innovationpayment productshigh-quality product delivery
Soft Skills
leadershipstrategic visionprioritizationstakeholder managementcoachingempowermentcommunicationcross-functional influenceoutcome-oriented mindsetculture building