Principal Engineer

Principal Individual Contributor (L8) - Global Payments Platform

About

PPRO's mission is to simplify access to local payment methods, enabling the sale of goods and services globally using preferred payment methods. They empower partners like Ant Group, PayPal, and Stripe to access new markets and accelerate growth. PPRO has a diverse global team united by the goal of delivering excellent products and services.

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical multiplier, leveling up engineering teams and fostering a culture of deep technical excellence.
• Define and consistently apply organization-wide engineering principles and best practices, partnering with cross-functional teams to ensure solutions meet standards for resilience, reliability, and business alignment.
• Ensure engineering principles and best practices are consistently defined and applied organization-wide, championing high standards for resilience and reliability.
• Help to design and develop scalable, reliable, and high-performing systems using core technologies Java/Kotlin in the AWS ecosystem.
• Drive continuous improvement and technical strategies with a focus on impact and initiative rather than bureaucracy.
• Own the technical advisory group where RFCs around end-to-end code quality, deployment processes, and monitoring in production environments are discussed and decided.
• Advocate for continuous improvement, driving decisions through data and metrics to align engineering outcomes with business goals.
• Pioneer technical strategies that position PPRO as a leader in payments innovation.
• Ensure sustainable, high-velocity delivery while maintaining system reliability and performance excellence.

Requirements

• Deep technical understanding and architectural innovation across the organization.
• Focus on technology principles and creating scalable, reliable, robust solutions.
• Experience designing and developing scalable, reliable, and high-performing systems using Java/Kotlin in the AWS ecosystem.
• Ability to drive continuous improvement and technical strategies.
• Experience owning a technical advisory group for code quality, deployment, and monitoring.
• Ability to drive decisions through data and metrics.
• Experience pioneering technical strategies for payments innovation.
• Ability to ensure sustainable, high-velocity delivery while maintaining system reliability and performance.