Backend Engineer at Primer

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An Introduction to Primer

We’re the world's first unified payment infrastructure, empowering businesses worldwide to unleash their payment potential. By choosing our platform, merchants can take control over their payment stack, create unique commerce experiences, accelerate their roadmap and increase payment success. We strive to make something complex, incredibly simple and intuitive. The world's top investors, including Accel, Balderton, Iconiq, and Tencent, have invested in Primer's vision to rebuild payments and commerce from the ground up.

Join us in shaping the future of payments and commerce.

Which of our teams are you joining?

A Primer payment is worth so much more than a regular payment!

Our Acceptance team enables merchants to accept online payments as seamlessly as possible in any region using any payment method. 

This team is primarily responsible for: Checkout, Payment Processing, Payments API, Tokenization, BIN Data, 3D Secure, Developer Tools, Public Docs, Payment List & Timeline, Loyalty & Workflows Engine

Reporting to an Engineering Manager, you’ll be a Backend Engineer, E2 seniority, working with 3 backend engineers, 3 frontend engineers and 2 mobile engineers.

The team adopts a ‘you build it, you own it’ approach, working with infrastructure, doing their own testing and QA.

Our tech stack includes: Python, Typescript, React, AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform amongst lots of other things.

🔍 What will you be doing? 

  • Designing and implementing core backend services for high performance, complex distributed systems

  • Driving and using modern development practices such as BDD and TDD would be highly beneficial

  • Creating clear, modern, well tested code

  • Collaborating across teams in a product-driven environment 

  • Taking ownership of key technology decisions, building for scale and optimising for output

  • Conducting code reviews and continuously look at ways of improving our ways of working

  • Creating detailed internal documentation for the projects you work on

👀 What we’d love to see: 

  • In-depth understanding of the entire development process (design, development and deployment)Knowledge of building developer frameworks and workflows, allowing both customers and third-parties to integrate as seamlessly as possible

  • Experience in Python is advantageous (it's what we use!) but we have had success hiring engineers of any technical background and understand that people can adapt

  • Highly motivated self-starter who values autonomy and getting things done

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

  • Payments knowledge, always looking for ways to optimise our merchant developer experience

🚫 You may not like it here if:

  • You enjoy working in an office-setting, we are remote-first and always will be!

  • You are not comfortable with shifting context and navigating ambiguity

  • You don’t enjoy testing your code, we have no testers or QA’s here at Primer

Our interview process

  • 30 minute call with a Talent Partner

  • 45 minute interview with an Engineering Manager

  • 90 minute pair programming interview

  • 60 minute final stage values-alignment interview

What’s life like at Primer?

We’ve been recognised as a top global employer, #1 in FinTech for ‘flexibility’!

We’re building a culture where people can come and do their best work and enjoy it. We want our people to be proud of the impact that they have at Primer, and of the work that they are doing. You will be working with a team of people who are mission-driven, smart, and reflective, and who are invested in building exceptional products and delivering success for our merchants (and we also know how to have fun along the way).

We work remotely. We believe that building a successful, profitable company goes beyond proximity. We invest in our relationships with each other through great remote working practices and thoughtfully designed face-to-face time together. Our heads-together time comes in the form of workstations, our annual company retreat, and co-working space access worldwide.

Finally, let’s go ahead and say it. The work that we do is challenging. Startups are a challenge, building category defining products is a challenge. You should be prepared for a challenge at Primer. But, there’s a big difference between a challenge and a struggle. The key difference is that the right challenge comes with the right support structures, an acceptance that not everything always goes to plan, a collaborative environment, and a great team around you. It’s never a challenge that you will face alone.

Our benefits

🌍 We are fully remote and globally distributed; and have been since day one

💰 Competitive share options

🌴 Uncapped holiday, with 25 days minimum to be taken

🗣️ Co-working space access

📅 Workations & Company Retreat

💻 The best equipment for your role

🏠 £500 towards your home office setup

🔎 Generous learning budget

🏥 Private Medical Insurance

📈 A broad set of additional perks and benefits (depending on location)

Don’t meet every single requirement?

At Primer, we’re dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply. You may be the right candidate for this or other roles. Primer is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees, regardless of background or beliefs.

Primer adopts a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination. We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all current and prospective employees regardless of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.


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About the job

Posted on

Mar 20, 2025

Apply before

Apr 19, 2025EXPIRED

Job type

Full-Time

Category

Location

Worldwide

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