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About the Role

Senior Backend Engineers at PPRO are crucial contributors to the company's success, significantly impacting their team's product, culture, and spirit. The Gateways team focuses on building, enhancing, and maintaining payment processing products, ensuring the PPRO Global processing gateway remains feature-rich, scalable, reliable, cost-efficient, secure, and auditable, while also reducing integration efforts and time-to-market for new payment methods.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain PPRO’s main payment processing engine exposed via the PPRO API.
Own end-to-end products and services from design to production rollout.
Execute with a "you build it, you run it" mindset, potentially participating in an on-call rotation.
Share knowledge and build creative solutions, assisting team and stakeholder evolution towards best practices.
Be an integral part of an agile team collaborating closely and transparently through pair programming, asynchronous communication (ADRs, RFCs), knowledge sharing, and brainstorming sessions.
Utilize the latest technologies to solve real-world problems at a massive scale.

Requirements

Results-oriented, collaborative, pragmatic mindset.
Experience in designing and building scalable products and services.
Motivation and appetite for problem-solving.
Skills to break down complex problems into manageable pieces.
Excellent writing and drawing skills to express ideas clearly.
Working proficiency in English.

Skills

Java
Spring Boot
REST APIs
AWS Cloud components (EKS, DynamoDB, Kinesis, OpenSearch)
Event-driven microservice architecture
Observability with Datadog
IaC via Terraform
Payments background (nice to have)
Hands-on experience with AI as a software engineer (nice to have)

Location

Berlin
Global

Work Type

Hybrid
Remote (up to 30 days/year)

Experience Level

Senior

Benefits

Hybrid working model (3 days/week on site expectation)
30-day holiday allowance
Work from abroad policy (up to 30 days/year)
€1,000 annual budget for professional growth
Leadership cafés
On-the-job training
Accident insurance
Disability insurance
Direct insurance (bAV)
Travel insurance
Contribution towards gym membership costs
Enhanced family leave
Mental Health Platform (one-on-one therapy, chat therapy, therapist-led courses, guided meditations)
Pet-friendly office

About the Company

PPRO simplifies access to local payments, providing a platform that empowers major companies like PayPal, Stripe, and Microsoft to connect with billions of consumers globally.
The company is on an ambitious mission to triple its growth by 2028.
PPRO fosters a diverse, people-first, high-trust environment with global teams spanning over 50 nationalities.
The company values autonomy, impact, broad exposure, meaningful challenges, and continuous learning.
Company principles include: getting things done, acting with trust and integrity, putting the customer first, making things better, and working as a team.

Equal Opportunity

PPRO's teams reflect diverse nationalities, which is seen as a competitive advantage.
The company welcomes applicants of every background, identity, and experience, prioritizing unique contributions over a perfect paper match.
The hiring process is accessible to everyone, with adjustments available upon request.
AI tools may be used to support the hiring process, but final decisions are made by humans.