Engineering manager - Cash flow

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, Pay Pal and Stripe to access new markets, connect with more customers, and accelerate their growth.

Our strength lies in our diverse global team with 50+ nationalities and 10+ international locations- all united around one goal – to deliver the best possible products and services to our partners and customers. While our company mission is to keep innovating global commerce, our internal mission is to #choose action, #beopen, #think customer, #gofurther and #win together.

Engineering Managers at PPRO have the passion and abilities to build collaborative teams that deliver high-quality, scalable and performant products. At the Cash Flow domain we provide the infrastructure and logic that powers PPRO’s ability to move and account for cash. We are responsible for the seamless movement of funds—ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and operational efficiency across the entire financial lifecycle.

You will not only lead the engineering strategy but will play a hands‑on role in enabling financial inclusion and global eCommerce. You will partner with Product to drive the technical strategy and evolution of our transactional accounting system, elevating the ledger into the company’s financial backbone and definitive source of truth for cash flow management.

• Partner with your Product Manager to develop the technology strategy and define the boundaries of the transactional accounting system
• Build and mentor a team of high‑performing engineers, fostering a culture of psychological safety, technical excellence, and continuous learning
• Lead the system evolution to elevate the ledger into the company’s financial backbone, enabling it to act as the definitive source of truth for PPRO’s cash flow management
• Lead by example and stay close to the code, making informed decisions while proactively identifying technical risks
• Collaborate with stakeholders (Finance, Accounting, Treasury) to identify opportunities, influencing decisions without direct authority using persuasive, data‑backed communication
• Facilitate technical discussions, guide resolutions, and navigate complex 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

• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a diverse group of stakeholders.
• A humble and inclusive leadership style
• Experience designing and building scalable products using Java/Kotlin and Spring Boot
• Experience (or a strong foundation) in developing, mentoring, and growing a high‑performing, collaborative, and diverse team
• A results‑oriented, collaborative, and pragmatic approach with a continuous improvement mindset.
• A desire to spend ~50% of your time close to the code
• The ability to analyze and articulate the trade‑offs of technical problems to a broad audience.
• Strong experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform)
• Working proficiency in English

• Accounting/Fintech Domain:
  Experience with—or a strong interest in—the complexities of accounting systems or ledgers is a distinct advantage
• Architecture:
  Experience with event‑driven architectures

• Java / Kotlin and Spring Boot
• Cloud‑native microservice architecture on AWS
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Event‑driven architectures
• Infrastructure‑as‑Code, e.g., Terraform

• 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. 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
• Learning and Development - We offer a €1,000 annual budget to support your professional growth—because investing in your development benefits us all. In addition, we provide leadership cafés,…