Engineering Manager
An Introduction to Primer
Primer is the unified infrastructure for global payments. We give finance and payments teams the visibility and control to reduce complexity, improve performance, and capture more revenue - all from a single platform.
Backed by Sofina, Peak XV Partners, ICONIQ, Tencent, Accel, and Balderton, we're building the payments layer the world's best companies rely on.
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WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING?
- Lead a team of engineers owning a defined area of software architecture, taking responsibility for delivery, quality, and technical direction
- Run an effective development process: sprint health, delivery cadence, incident response, postmortems, and a sustainable on-call rotation that doesn't burn people out
- Grow the engineers on your team through regular feedback, performance conversations, and stretch assignments that actually move people forward
- Work closely with product to scope initiatives, identify risks, and prioritise deliverables, giving clear heads-up when capacity is constrained
- Stay close enough to your team's technical work to ask the right questions, spot risks early, and contribute meaningfully to design discussions without becoming a bottleneck
- Define the right metrics for your team's systems, use them to explain performance, catch variance, and drive improvements before they become incidents
- Handle the difficult conversations, whether that's performance issues, interpersonal friction, or delivery risk, before they become problems that need escalating
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- A background as a software engineer, with hands-on experience building and shipping production systems. This is a hard requirement.
- Experience managing a team of engineers, with a track record of building effective development processes and gro...