São Paulo, Brazil · Hybrid
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 Grou…
Skills: ML Architecture, Technical Leadership, Classical ML, Production ML Engineering, Python
Chicago, Illinois, United States · Hybrid
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 Grou…
Skills: Customer Success Management, Operational Performance Management, Payment Processing, Data Analysis, Incident Management
Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico · Hybrid
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 Grou…
Skills: Technical Support, Functional Support, Merchant Onboarding, Payment Processing, Troubleshooting
Munich, Bavaria, Germany · Hybrid
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 Grou…
Skills: Merchant Onboarding, Technical Troubleshooting, Payment Processing, API Integration, Customer Support
São Paulo, Brazil · Hybrid
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 Grou…
Skills: Engineering Leadership, Card Payments, API-first Architecture, Cloud-native Architecture, Microservices
São Paulo, Brazil · Hybrid
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 Grou…
Skills: Engineering Strategy, Technical Leadership, Cloud-native Architecture, Distributed Systems, Microservices
São Paulo, Brazil · Hybrid
At PPRO, we simplify access to local payments - providing a local payments platform that empowers giants like PayPal, Stripe, and Microsoft to connect with billions of consumers worldwide. We are on an ambitious, fast-pa…
Skills: Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Micronaut, AWS
Shanghai, China · Hybrid
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 Grou…
Skills: Customer Success Management, Operational Performance, Payment Processing, Data Analysis, Incident Management
Shanghai, China · Hybrid
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 Grou…
Skills: Merchant Onboarding, Technical Troubleshooting, Payment Processing, API Integration, Customer Support
Berlin, Germany · Hybrid
At PPRO, we simplify access to local payments - providing a local payments platform that empowers giants like PayPal, Stripe, and Microsoft to connect with billions of consumers worldwide. We are on an ambitious, fast-pa…
Skills: Office operations, Hospitality, Inventory management, Vendor relations, Facilities maintenance
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Define the technical vision and architecture for ML-driven payment optimization and shared ML infrastructure. Lead cross-team technical standards, mentor senior engineers, and drive the ML strategy for authorization and routing intelligence.
Requires expert-level mastery of classical ML, production ML engineering, and senior-level software engineering in Python. Must have deep experience in payments domain knowledge and designing scalable ML systems on AWS or GCP.
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
As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer in PPRO's Performance Powerhouse team, you will define the technical vision and architecture for ML-driven payment optimization across the organization. You will move beyond executing well-defined problems to identifying and framing the highest-leverage opportunities—bridging strategy, architecture, and execution across multiple teams. You'll partner deeply with Product, Data, Core Payments, and Platform Engineering to set standards, eliminate systemic bottlenecks, and ensure PPRO's ML capabilities scale with the business.
This role is for engineers who have mastered ML and software craft at the senior level and are now ready to multiply their impact through technical leadership, mentorship of senior engineers, and architectural decisions that shape how the Data & ML organization builds and deploys ML systems. You will be the technical authority on ML for payments at PPRO—setting the direction others follow, raising the bar across the discipline, and driving alignment across engineering, product, and data teams.
\nWhat You Will Be Doing
Define ML Technical Strategy: Drive the multi-quarter roadmap for ML-driven authorization optimization, routing intelligence, and retry strategies. Identify the highest-impact opportunities before they become obvious, and build the case for investment with data and business framing.
Architect Foundational ML Systems: Design and lead the implementation of shared ML infrastructure—feature stores, model serving platforms, experimentation frameworks—that accelerates every team building on payments data, not just your own.
Drive Cross-Team Technical Standards: Author and champion ML engineering standards across PPRO (model governance, monitoring, MLOps patterns), ensuring consistency, reliability, and reproducibility organization-wide.
Solve Ambiguous, High-Stakes Problems: Take on challenges where the problem itself isn't well-defined. You scope, structure, and sequence the work—then lead execution across multiple engineers and teams to deliver.
Mentor and Level Up Senior Engineers: Actively invest in the growth of Senior engineers: through design reviews, pairing on hard problems, sponsoring stretch opportunities, and raising expectations for what "production-ready ML" means at PPRO.
Lead Experimentation at Scale: Design the experimentation strategy for live payment traffic—including multi-armed bandits, causal inference approaches, and traffic-splitting frameworks—ensuring sound statistical methodology across the team.
Elevate Engineering Culture: Run design reviews, set expectations for technical documentation, and create the internal forums (guilds, working groups, RFCs) that help ML practitioners across teams learn from each other and align on standards.
ML Architecture at Scale: Demonstrated experience designing and shipping ML systems that serve multiple products or teams—not just models, but the platforms, contracts, and abstractions that make ML reusable and reliable at scale.
Technical Leadership Without Authority: Proven ability to drive technical decisions across teams you don't manage—through clear writing, credibility, and the ability to synthesize competing perspectives into a coherent path forward.
Deep Classical & Applied ML Mastery: Expert-level command of classical ML (XGBoost, LightGBM, calibration, cost-sensitive learning) with the judgment to know when—and when not—to reach for more complex approaches. You've operated beyond standard accuracy metrics and can design evaluation frameworks appropriate to the problem.
Production ML Engineering: Extensive experience taking models from experimentation to high-throughput, low-latency production environments. You've owned reliability, SLAs, and incident response for ML systems, and you've built MLOps tooling—not just consumed it.
Software Engineering Excellence: You write and review code at a senior+ level in Python, hold the team to high standards for testability and maintainability, and can credibly engage in systems design discussions with Principal and Staff engineers across Data and Platform.
Strategic Thinking & Business Acumen: You connect technical decisions to business outcomes—approval rate improvements to revenue, latency reductions to conversion, model drift to operational risk. You communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders and can translate ambiguous business goals into concrete ML problems.
Payments Domain Depth: Strong understanding of the card payment lifecycle, issuer behavior, authorization codes, retry logic, network rules, and 3DS. You use domain knowledge to inform feature design, model architecture, and experimentation strategy—not just as background context.
Cloud Infrastructure Mastery: Deep experience designing and owning ML infrastructure on AWS or GCP at scale, including infrastructure-as-code, cost management, and the ability to make build-vs-buy decisions on platform components.
What we offer:
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 3,000 BRL 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 life insurance, health insurance + dental plan and travel insurance.
Meal vouchers - BRL 54/ day - Enjoy a moment of conviviality and a good and balanced meal thanks to your meal vouchers. You will also have the choice between meal allowance, supermarket voucher or both (splitting the total value in two)
Enhance Family Leave - We understand the importance of family - that's why we offer enhanced family leave to support you during key life moments.
Transportation Voucher - we will cover your costs of commute!
Gym membership - PPRO helps contribute towards the costs of your gym membership, supporting your physical fitness journey while easing the burden on your wallet
New Value (Deals & Coupon Platform) - Get attractive discounts to restaurants, stores and events
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.
SESC - private institution that makes available Education, Health, Culture and Recreational programs and events and provides Social Assistance to our employees and their dependents.
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.
Connecting the world of local payments
PPRO is a fintech company that provides digital payment solutions to businesses and banks so that they can scale their local payment services through one connection. Stripe, PayPal, and J.P. Morgan are just some of the names that work with PPRO to accelerate their roadmaps, boost their conversions, and eliminate the complexities of local payments.
Offices: 20 Midtown, Procter Street, London, England WC1V 6NX, GB · St. Martin Straße 74, Munich, Bavaria 81541, DE · Im Mediapark 5d, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia 50670, DE · Schumannstr. 5, Berlin, Berlin 10117, DE · 1230 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, US
Connecting the world of local payments
PPRO is a fintech company that provides digital payment solutions to businesses and banks so that they can scale their local payment services through one connection. Stripe, PayPal, and J.P. Morgan are just some of the names that work with PPRO to accelerate their roadmaps, boost their conversions, and eliminate the complexities of local payments.
Offices: 20 Midtown, Procter Street, London, England WC1V 6NX, GB · St. Martin Straße 74, Munich, Bavaria 81541, DE · Im Mediapark 5d, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia 50670, DE · Schumannstr. 5, Berlin, Berlin 10117, DE · 1230 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, US
