Staff Engineer - Boarding Domain

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:

At PPRO, Boarding is the gateway to everything we do, it is the first touchpoint for customers and a core enabler of our global payments vision.

Staff Engineer (L6) for the Boarding Domain , you will have the autonomy to define the 'how' for the Boarding domain, with a direct seat at the table in shaping our global engineering strategy. You will be part of a high-impact, high-autonomy team that values ownership, innovation, and collaboration. If you are passionate about fintech, automation, and creating seamless onboarding journeys, this is the role for you! Your mission is to design, build, and maintain the robust and scalable systems that enable our partners to seamlessly integrate with our platform. This role is critical to PPRO's strategy by ensuring a smooth and efficient onboarding experience, which directly impacts our ability to attract and retain key partners and expand our global reach.

What You Will Be Doing

• Architect and drive the design and implementation of complex, distributed systems using Java/Kotlin and Spring Boot, ensuring the delivery of highly scalable, resilient microservices within an AWS cloud environment.
• Code Delivery. Actively write code, ship new features collaboratively with your team, and conduct thorough code reviews.
• Establish and govern the architectural standards for the Boarding domain, ensuring alignment with PPRO’s long-term global platform evolution.
• Take ownership of the technical roadmap for the boarding domain, managing the end-to-end integration of K8s services, SQL databases and messaging queues like Kinesis and SQS to optimize partner onboarding.
• Mentor and lead junior and senior engineers by fostering a culture of technical excellence, providing high-level strategic guidance, and conducting deep-dive code reviews to uphold rigorous engineering standards.
• Collaborate and partner with product managers and cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into innovative fintech solutions, leveraging your expertise to solve mission-critical challenges.
• Champion delivery and excellence by implementing automated testing, robust CI/CD pipelines, and containerized orchestration via Kubernetes to ensure the continuous improvement and reliability of PPRO’s global platform.

What We Are Looking For

• Strong hands-on background in Kotlin or Java with Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, RDS, Aurora Serverless, Gradle (or equivalent JVM experience and willingness to pick up Kotlin).
• Proven experience designing and operating distributed systems in high-volume, SLA-driven production environments, real products with real customers, not greenfield prototypes. (DataDog)
• Solid grasp of event-driven architecture (Kafka/Kinesis/SNS/SQS), relational data modeling at scale, and API contracts.
• Comfort with AWS and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Docker, Github Actions). You care about observability, deployability, and on-call health.
• Experience with global or multi-region products and the operational concerns that come with them.
• Ability to communicate trade-offs clearly to engineers, PMs, and non-technical stakeholders, and to lead through influence rather than authority.

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 €1,000 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 – We want our employees to benefit from various insurances including accident insurance, disability insurance, direct insurance (bAV) and travel insurance.

Gym membership – PPRO helps contribute towards the costs of your gym membership, supporting your physical fitness journey while easing the burden on your wallet.

Enhance Family Leave – We understand the importance of family - that's why we offer enhanced family leave to support you during key life moments.

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.

Pet-friendly office – Because work is better with your paw-tners by your side.