Senior Software Engineer, Card Payments Platform

Company: PPRO

Mission: To simplify access to local payment methods and 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.

Vision: To enable the sale of goods and services to anyone in the world using their preferred way to pay.

Our Strength: A diverse global team with 50+ nationalities and 10+ international locations, united around the goal of delivering the best possible products and services. 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.

Your Impact in this Role:

• Scale Core Banking: Build ultra-high-volume, low-latency transaction engines within our Cards Platform, focusing on high availability and chaos engineering.
• Global Alignment: Collaborate with global Staff Engineers and Product Managers to align regional LatAm business needs with global technical roadmaps.
• Tech Leadership: Mentor the São Paulo engineering hub, document architectural decisions, and champion a strong dev culture.
• System Resilience: Architect distributed, fault-tolerant ledger systems capable of handling millions of peak daily transactions.

Technologies You’ll Work With:

• Backend Core: Java 17+, Spring Boot, Microservices Architecture.
• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (Multi-region deployment, EKS, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SNS).
• Data & Streaming: Event-Driven Architecture (Kafka), advanced database patterns (CQRS, Event Sourcing).
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, Terragrunt.
• Observability: Datadog, OpenTelemetry, real-time alerting.
• CI/CD: Github Actions and ArgoCD.

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• Proven Java Expertise: Deep professional experience designing, building, and maintaining complex, enterprise-grade distributed backend systems using modern Java and the Spring Boot ecosystem.
• High-Volume Cloud Environments: Hands-on experience operating microservices at scale inside major cloud providers (ideally AWS), with a focus on high availability, multi-region setups, and database optimization.
• Containerization & IaC: Mastery of container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS) and a "GitOps" mindset, utilizing Terraform/Terragrunt to treat infrastructure as software.
• Technical Leadership: A history of mentoring mid-level and senior peers, leading high-stakes technical discovery phases, and successfully driving consensus on complex system designs across global engineering organizations.
• Communication: Fluency in English, as you will interact with global engineering squads, combined with active participation in the local tech community.

Nice-to-Haves (The Extra Edge):

• FinTech & Payments Domain: Direct experience with card issuing, acquiring, ledger engines, real-time payment rails (such as Pix), or banking compliance structures (BACEN regulations).
• Advanced SRE Practices: Deep familiarity with leveraging Datadog or similar suites for proactive bottleneck identification, performance tuning, and optimizing cloud spend.
• Event-Sourcing Patterns: Deep understanding of data consistency models, distributed locks, and managing high-throughput message streaming with Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ.

What We Offer:

• Hybrid Working: A hybrid structure with a 3 days/week on-site expectation. Includes a Work From Abroad policy for up to 30 days per year.
• Learning and Development: A 3,000 BRL annual budget for professional growth, leadership cafés, and on-the-job training.
• Insurance: Life insurance, health insurance + dental plan, and travel insurance.
• Meal Vouchers: BRL 54/day, with options for meal allowance, supermarket voucher, or a combination.
• Enhanced Family Leave: Support during key life moments.
• Transportation Voucher: Commute costs covered.
• Gym Membership: Contribution towards costs.
• New Value (Deals & Coupon Platform): Attractive discounts.
• Mental Health Platform: Access to therapy, guided meditations, and more.
• SESC: Access to Education, Health, Culture, Recreational programs, and Social Assistance.
• Pet-Friendly Office: Dogs are welcome.

Our Principles:

• We get things done: Courageous, ownership, decision-making, execution.
• We act with trust and integrity: Listen first, challenge respectfully, leverage diverse perspectives, offer honest feedback.
• We put the customer first: Laser-focused on delivering outstanding outcomes.
• We make things better: Explore new ideas, commitment to continuous improvement.
• We work as a team: Collaborate closely, value team success.

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