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 Software Engineer in the Card Payments Platform, you will build and maintain scalable and resilient solutions to support card transactions across the globe. Your mission is to implement reliable features, optimize our core card processing infrastructure, and ensure high code quality. This role is critical to PPRO’s growth, helping us expand seamlessly into new markets by delivering stable and efficient payment solutions.
### Your Impact in this Role
Feature Delivery & Scaling: Develop and optimize high-volume, low-latency microservices within our Cards Platform, ensuring high availability and code reliability.
Global Collaboration: Work closely with local and global engineering teams to implement features that meet both LatAm and global business needs.
Technical Quality: Write clean, well-tested code, document your technical implementations, and actively participate in code reviews to foster a strong dev culture.
System Resilience: Maintain and improve distributed, fault-tolerant ledger systems, ensuring they can handle peak daily transaction volumes smoothly.
### Some of the technologies you’ll get to work with
Backend Core: Java 17+, Spring Boot, Microservices Architecture.
Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EKS, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SNS).
Data & Streaming: Event-Driven Architecture (Kafka), database patterns.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform.
Observability: Datadog, OpenTelemetry, real-time alerting.
CI/CD: Github Actions and ArgoCD.
### What Makes You a Great Fit
Solid Java Expertise: Professional experience building and maintaining distributed backend systems using modern Java and the Spring Boot ecosystem.
Cloud & Microservices: Hands-on experience working with microservices inside cloud providers (ideally AWS), with a good understanding of REST APIs, databases, and scalability.
Containerization & CI/CD: Familiarity with containers (Docker/Kubernetes) and modern CI/CD practices (GitOps mindset). Experience with basic Terraform is a plus.
Autonomy & Ownership: Ability to take a well-defined technical task and drive it to completion with high quality, knowing when to ask for help and when to propose solutions.
Communication: Professional English proficiency, as you will interact with global engineering squads, combined with great teamwork skills.
### Nice-to-Haves (The Extra Edge)
FinTech & Payments Domain: Previous experience with payments, ledger engines, real-time payment rails (like Pix), or financial systems.
Observability Practices: Experience using Datadog or similar tools for monitoring applications, debugging production issues, and checking logs.
Messaging & Streaming: Understanding of asynchronous messaging patterns using Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ.
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.
