Senior Software Engineer - Card Payments

Senior Software Engineer - Card Payments

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 a Senior Software Engineer in the Card Payments Platform, you will deliver worldwide, scalable and resilient solutions to support card transactions across the globe. Your mission is to ensure the architectural integrity of our core card processing infrastructure, guaranteeing its extensibility and reliability for future growth. This role is critical to the overall PPRO strategy by enabling seamless expansion into new markets and maintaining our competitive edge in global payment solutions.

What You'll Do:

• Drive the implementation and continuous enhancement of high-volume solutions within the Cards Platform, ensuring high standards for code design, unit, integration, and performance tests
• Collaborate effectively with Staff Engineers, Product Managers, and cross-functional domain teams globally to align technical roadmaps with business needs
• Lead knowledge sharing initiatives, clearly documenting architectural decisions and patterns to elevate team understanding and foster technical consistency
• Influence and shape key technical decisions required to ensure a scalable, resilient, and performant platform that directly supports accelerated company growth

What You'll Bring:

• Solid professional experience (5+ years) developing complex, high-performance systems with in-depth knowledge of Java and the SpringBoot framework
• Proven experience designing and operating distributed, highly available systems in a major cloud environment (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Hands-on expertise with container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes) and managing infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles
• Proven track record of mentoring engineers, leading technical discussions, and successfully influencing architectural decisions across teams
• Even better if you have: Experience working with high-volume transactional systems, particularly in regulated sectors (e.g., FinTech, E-commerce, or Banking)
• Proficiency in leveraging observability tools (e.g., Datadog) for proactive monitoring, logging, and complex application troubleshooting
• Familiarity with other messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) and advanced database patterns (e.g., event sourcing)

Some of the Technologies You'll Get to Work With:

• Backend & Core: Java, Spring Boot
• Cloud Infrastructure: AWS (SQS, SNS, S3, multi-region architecture, EKS, DynamoDB, etc.)
• Orchestration: Kubernetes
• Observability: Datadog
• DevOps/SCM: GitHub, Terraform, Terragrunt

What We Offer:

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 3,000 BRL annual budget to support your professional growth—because investing in your development benefits us all. In addition, we provide leadership cafés, on-the-job training, and other opportunities to help you grow your skills and thrive in your role.

Insurance - Because better safe than sorry - we want our employees to benefit from various insurances including life insurance, health insurance + dental plan and travel insurance.

Meal vouchers - BRL 54/day - Enjoy a moment of conviviality and a good and balanced meal thanks to your meal vouchers. You will also have the choice between meal allowance, supermarket voucher or both (splitting the total value in two)

Enhance Family Leave - We understand the importance of family - that's why we offer enhanced family leave to support you during key life moments.

Transportation Voucher - We will cover your costs of commute!

Gym membership - PPRO helps contribute towards the costs of your gym membership, supporting your physical fitness journey while easing the burden on your wallet

New Value (Deals & Coupon Platform) - Get attractive discounts to restaurants, stores and events

Mental Health Platform - We've teamed up with a top well-being platform to provide one-on-one therapy, chat therapy, therapist-led courses, guided meditations, and more.

SESC - Private institution that makes available Education, Health, Culture and Recreational programs and events and provides Social Assistance to our employees and their dependents.

Pet-friendly office - Because work is better with your paw-tners by your side

Our Principles:

We get things done: We are courageous; we take ownership, make decisions and get things done.

We act with trust and integrity: We listen first and challenge respectfully. We seek out and leverage diverse perspectives. We welcome and offer honest and open feedback, always assuming positive intent.

We put the customer first: We are laser focused on delivering outstanding outcomes for our customers. We put the customer at the heart of what we do.

We make things better: We boldly explore new ideas and have an unwavering commitment to continuous improvement.

We work as a team: We collaborate closely and value team success over individual achievement.