Staff Security Engineer

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.