Engineering Manager - Fullstack

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 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 #chooseaction, #beopen, #thinkcustomer, #gofurther and #wintogether

• The Purpose:
• As Engineering Manager for Interfaces at PPRO, you will lead a newly established team in Munich charged with defining and executing a bold, global vision and strategy for Interfaces.
• Your team will drive the design and architecture of frontend and backend solutions across domains in a high-scale, dynamic environment. You will set the technical direction, foster your team’s professional growth, and cultivate a compelling vision that inspires innovation and excellence.
• This role offers a unique opportunity to be a hands-on leader—guiding your team's architectural decisions and coding on key platform components in React and Java—acting as a “mini-CTO” within a startup-like setting, all while benefiting from the support and stability of PPRO. Here, you will have the freedom to experiment, learn from setbacks, and celebrate successes together.
• What you will be doing:
• Develop and drive the technology strategy for your product in partnership with your Product Manager counterpart.
• Establish a foundation to enable the efficient creation of frontend solutions to other teams across the company
• Work with your team to develop new UIs, modules, and platforms for PPRO.
• 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 (React and Java), 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

• 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 fullstack products and services
• A track record building micro-frontend architecture with multiple modules and widgets
• Experience working with frontend frameworks, including, but not limited to React
• Experience working with one or more general-purpose programming languages including, but not limited to Java
• Experience with the cloud architecture and providers (preferably AWS)
• Ability to collaborate and communicate influencing decisions globally, where you might not have direct authority and always with inclusive, adaptable, and persuasive data-backed communication
• Working proficiency in English
• Tech stack:
• Micro-frontend architecture
• Full stack experience
• React, Typescript
• Java 21 and Spring Boot 3
• Cloud-native microservice architecture on AWS
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Event-driven architectures
• Infrastructure-as-Code, e.g. Terraform