Senior Engineer, Backend - Orchestration

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?

- Leading the design and implementation of core backend services for high-performance, complex distributed systems

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

- 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

- 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 will need to be based in: Poland, Portugal, Hungary, Romania or South Africa.

 

✅ A TYPICAL INTERVIEW PROCESS

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