The Purpose:

Local payments are how the world really pays, and we make them work beautifully. Our standard is simple: beat going direct. Now we’re going deeper, raising every payment method we offer and building one standardised platform behind them.

You’ll own two product engineering teams of around four engineers each: the strategy, the delivery and the results. Think of yourself as the hands-on “mini-CTO” of a small startup inside PPRO, with real autonomy and the chance to grow your impact beyond your own teams.

Responsibilities include:

• Own the strategy and roadmap for your teams’ payment methods with Product and Commercial partners, looking six-to-twelve months ahead
• Hire, coach and grow engineers, and build a high-trust team that produces future leaders
• Build trust with Product, Commercial, Compliance, Payment Partnerships and external providers, and influence without authority
• Take full accountability for delivery and outcomes: realistic plans, blockers cleared early, risks raised fast
• Negotiate scope, priorities and dependencies with internal and external stakeholders, and help shape the vision and boundaries of the domain
• Shape the architecture behind better conversion and reliability, and stay close to the code through design and code reviews
• Lead your team like a startup - succeed, fail and learn together

What would make you a great fit:

• A very strong ownership mindset: you’re accountable for results, quality and people
• Stakeholder management and negotiation skills: you build trust, balance competing priorities and reach outcomes that work for everyone
• Product thinking: you start from the customer problem and judge success by outcomes, not output
• A track record of hiring, developing and growing high-performing, diverse teams
• A track record of delivering across multiple impactful projects, with the ambition to guide strategy beyond your own teams
• Strong communication skills, a humble and inclusive leadership style and the ability to hold difficult conversations with empathy and objectivity
• Experience designing and building scalable products using Java, Spring Boot and a microservices architecture
• Desire to stay close to the code: you review designs and pull requests and dive in when it counts
• Working proficiency in English
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