Software Engineer II

PPRO · Sao Paulo

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.

Software pay context

Based on 7,120 disclosed Software salaries on RoleSuite, the role pays a median of $157K/year, with most offers between $123K and $199K (10th–90th percentile: $101K–$235K).

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