Principal Engineer

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Purpose:

As a Principal Engineer, your mission is to advance PPRO’s global payments platform by driving technical innovation, creating scalable solutions, and ensuring robust architecture. This role supports PPRO’s strategy by enabling secure, reliable, and efficient payment infrastructure, directly impacting customer success and PPRO’s market leadership.

• Design and develop scalable, high-performance systems using Java/Kotlin in the AWS ecosystem.
• Champion engineering best practices, ensuring the platform’s reliability and resilience.
• Partner with cross-functional teams—Product, Partnerships, and Compliance to deliver impactful solutions aligned with business objectives.
• Mentor and guide engineering teams, fostering a culture of growth, innovation, and collaboration.
• Own end-to-end code quality, deployment processes, and monitoring in production environments.
• Advocate for continuous improvement, driving decisions through data and metrics to align engineering outcomes with business goals.
• Pioneer technical strategies that position PPRO as a leader in payments innovation.
• Ensure sustainable, high-velocity delivery while maintaining system reliability and performance excellence.

• Proven experience designing and building distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• Expertise in Java/Kotlin development and AWS services (e.g., EKS, Kinesis, SQS, Dynamo
  
  DB, RDS).
• Strong leadership skills with a track record of mentoring and guiding engineering teams.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively to technical and non-technical audiences.
• A data-driven approach to problem-solving and decision-making in a fast-paced environment.
• Background in API security standards and data handling best practices.

• Experience in the payments industry, including familiarity with PCI‑DSS compliance and payment gateways.

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.

We offer a €1,000 annual budget to support your professional growth. In addition, we provide leadership cafés, on-the-job training, and other opportunities to help you grow your skills and thrive in your role.

Because better safe than sorry - we want our employees to benefit from various insurances including accident insurance, disability insurance, direct insurance (bAV) and travel insurance.

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

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

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.

Because work is better with your paw‑tners by your side.