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 Staff Security Engineer at PPRO, you’ll act as the technical lead for the Security Engineering (SecEng) team, driving technical and operational excellence while coaching and developing your colleagues. You’ll be pivotal in supporting our mission to build robust, secure, and resilient systems.
This role offers the opportunity to apply deep security expertise across application and cloud domains. You’ll serve as the primary technical interface for the wider organisation, influencing architecture and guiding engineering teams to embed a “secure by design” philosophy in everything we build.
You will be the main technical point of contact between the SecEng team and engineers across the organization. You’ll design secure solution architectures and build Security as Code solutions that enable consistent controls and high-velocity delivery. You will perform security assessments for new projects and technologies, utilizing threat modeling to identify risks early and define standardized, repeatable security patterns for the wider engineering team. If you thrive on finding win-win solutions that embed security into modern development workflows to safeguard our customers, this will be a great opportunity to have a positive impact at scale across the payments ecosystem.
As Staff Security Engineer at PPRO, you’ll act as the technical lead for the Security Engineering (SecEng) team, driving technical and operational excellence while coaching and developing your colleagues. You’ll be pivotal in supporting our mission to build robust, secure, and resilient systems.
This role offers the opportunity to apply deep security expertise across application and cloud domains. You’ll serve as the primary technical interface for the wider organisation, influencing architecture and guiding engineering teams to embed a “secure by design” philosophy in everything we build.
You will be the main technical point of contact between the SecEng team and engineers across the organization. You’ll design secure solution architectures and build Security as Code solutions that enable consistent controls and high-velocity delivery. You will perform security assessments for new projects and technologies, utilizing threat modeling to identify risks early and define standardized, repeatable security patterns for the wider engineering team. If you thrive on finding win-win solutions that embed security into modern development workflows to safeguard our customers, this will be a great opportunity to have a positive impact at scale across the payments ecosystem.
At PPRO, Senior Software Engineers (m/w/x) make some of the most significant decisions for the company. Think of yourself as an important contributor to the success of your team, with a significant impact on the team’s product, but also on its culture and spirit.
The Transaction Processing - Gateways team in Berlin is in charge of building, enhancing and maintaining payment processing products, with PPRO Global processing gateway as the core platform. The team needs to ensure the platform is continuously fully-featured, scalable, reliable, cost-efficient, secure, and auditable while discovering new ways to reduce the integration efforts from customers and reduce the time to enable new payment methods.
What you’ll do:
What we look for in you:
If you’re passionate about security and eager to make a significant impact in a fast-paced environment, we’d love to hear from you!
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 - 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.
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
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.
