Vice President Engineering

About the role

As Vice President Engineering, you will provide leadership, vision, and executional ownership across PPRO's engineering organisation, spanning multiple product and platform domains. You will ensure PPRO's engineering capabilities power world-class, secure, and scalable payment products while accelerating product innovation and delivery.

What you'll do

• Set and communicate a clear engineering vision across multiple product and platform areas, aligned to business priorities and product strategy
• Balance long-term architectural evolution with near-term product delivery, ensuring engineering decisions accelerate customer and commercial outcomes
• Take direct ownership for driving Product AI initiatives, ensuring AI meaningfully improves product intelligence, performance, and differentiation
• Partner closely with Product to translate strategy into executable roadmaps that deliver measurable customer and business value
• Hire, develop, and retain high-calibre engineering leaders across domains, with a focus on leadership impact
• Drive the adoption of AI across the engineering department, fundamentally improving how software is designed, built, tested, and operated
• Define and influence engineering-wide OKRs and KPIs spanning delivery performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency
• Operate as a senior leader across Product, Commercial, Partnerships, and Engineering, aligning teams around shared priorities

What you'll need

• Proven experience setting strategic vision and engineering direction, leading "leaders of leaders" (VPs and Directors) across complex product and platform environments
• 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
• Strong technical foundation with ability to engage credibly on architecture, platforms, and engineering practices
• 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, with drive to personally lead execution
• Data-driven, outcome-oriented leadership mindset with strong cross-functional influence
• Clear, candid communicator with presence to operate effectively at executive level

Nice to have

• Understanding of payment ecosystems, PSP economics, and regulatory considerations across regions
• Experience building or scaling payment platforms, processing gateways, or other compliance-critical systems
• Prior exposure to introducing AI-enabled tooling or product capabilities at scale