Senior Backend Engineer - Care Payment (3 Days/week Hybrid)

PPRO; São Paulo; Hybrid; BRL 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Meal vouchers BRL 54/day

Gym membership

Mental health support

Dental plan

Life insurance

Pet-friendly office

Job summary

PPRO in Brazil is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Card Payments Platform to deliver global, scalable transactions. You will own architectural decisions for core card processing and help expand into new markets while maintaining high reliability.

You will mentor the São Paulo engineering hub, collaborate with global Staff Engineers and Product Managers, and contribute to a strong dev culture with a focus on observability, Kubernetes, AWS, and event-driven architectures.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building and maintaining large-scale Java backend systems.
• Strong background in cloud-native architectures, multi-region deployments, and high availability.
• Proven ability to mentor peers and drive architectural decisions across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve a scalable, fault-tolerant card payments platform.
• Collaborate with global engineers and product teams to align regional needs with global roadmaps.
• Lead technical discovery phases and champion strong dev practices.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

Kubernetes

AWS

Kafka

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

GitOps

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

EKS

DynamoDB

Job description

At PPRO, we simplify access to local payments - providing a local payments platform that empowers giants like PayPal, Stripe, and Microsoft to connect with billions of consumers worldwide. We are on an ambitious, fast-paced mission to 3x our growth by 2028 - and we’re just getting started.
Our magic lies in our team of proud payments nerds. Spanning over 50 nationalities across 10+ global locations, our diverse cultures aren't a checklist; they are the competitive advantage driving our innovation. This is a people-first, high trust environment where you’ll have the autonomy to make a massive impact, own your work end-to-end, and grow through broad exposure, meaningful challenges, and continuous learning. We get things done, challenge respectfully, put the customer first, and recognise that our biggest successes are those we create as a team. If you’re ready to leave your footprint on global commerce, join us.

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.

Some of the technologies you’ll get to 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 would make 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's in it for you?

• 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.

Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
Payments only work when they reflect how different people actually pay, and we build teams the same way: our people span more than 50 nationalities, and that mix is exactly what makes us good at this. So if you're reading this and wondering whether you tick every box, apply anyway. We're far more interested in what you'll bring than a perfect match on paper.

We welcome applicants of every background, identity, and experience, and we make sure our hiring process is accessible to everyone. If you need an adjustment at any stage, just let us know: we're happy to help.

A few more things: We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy.