Primer's enterprise-grade infrastructure, frameworks, and tooling allow merchants to unify their disparate payment solutions and services to build optimised payment flows tailored to their unique business needs with no code or additional complexity. We strive to make something complex incredibly simple and intuitive.

Our success so far has been reflected in the trust placed in us by category leaders such as Printify, NewLook, Voi, and Dabble, who are using Primer to transform their payments into a growth lever. Moreover, the world's top investors, including Accel, Balderton, Iconiq, and Tencent, have also invested in Primer's vision to rebuild payments and commerce from the ground up.

Join us in shaping the future of payments and commerce. Let's pave the way for a world where businesses can fully realise their payment potential.

What will the role involve?

Designing and implementing highly secure, fault tolerant APIs and core backend services in Python
Creating our next generation developer framework and workflows, allowing both merchants and third-parties to integrate as seamlessly as possible
Working in close collaboration with infrastructure and frontend teams
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
Developing deep payments expertise, always looking for ways to optimise our merchant developer experience
Creating detailed internal documentation for the projects you work on

What are we looking for?

Experience building high performance, complex distributed systems
Experience of driving and using modern development practices such as BDD and TDD would be highly beneficial
Experience in Python is advantageous (it's what we use!) but we have had success hiring engineers of any technical background understanding that people can adapt
Be willing to set goals, success metrics, driving and setting up sprints and driving refinement sessions of the tickets and driving delivery side on a day to day basis.
Passion for beautiful, well tested code
In-depth understanding of the entire development process (design, development and deployment)
Highly motivated self-starter who values autonomy and getting things done
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Experience working in a fast-paced environment
Our engineering teams work fully remotely across Europe and operate within local timezones - if you are not based in the above countries listed but would still like to apply please let us know in your application
Unfortunately we are unable to offer VISA sponsorships or relocation packages at this time
Our interview process
30 minute call with a Talent Partner
45 minute interview with an Engineering Manager
90 minute pair programming interview
60 minute systems design interview
60 minute final stage culture interview

Backend Engineer - Acceptance

Anywhere in the world

Remote

Senior

Primer