Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Primer, a leading unified payment infrastructure company, and lead a growing team of 6-8 engineers. You will cultivate a collaborative learning environment, optimize engineering processes, and collaborate with leadership on strategy. Responsibilities include reviewing technical architecture, improving knowledge sharing, and planning complex projects. The ideal candidate possesses a software engineering background, experience managing full-stack engineers, and excellent communication skills. Primer offers a fully remote work environment within Europe, along with competitive benefits including uncapped holiday, co-working space access, team socials, and a learning budget. Even if you don't meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply.

Requirements

• Software Engineering background - this role is technically hands-on
• Happy to dive into the detail - reviewing tech decisions with the team, bringing new ideas to the table and challenging the team
• Someone who enjoys talking tech, doing code reviews, jumping in to code when necessary and regularly providing technical feedback to the team
• Experience in managing and developing team of full-stack engineers
• A track record of delivery in high paced startup environments
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Comfortable working in remote environments
• Passion about people, with the ability to inspire, coach and mentor to help people perform at their best

Responsibilities

• Lead a growing team of 6-8 engineers split across multiple pods
• Cultivate an environment of continuous learning and collaboration
• Optimise engineering processes and resourcing across the teams to optimise delivery
• Collaborate with engineering leadership in setting team strategy and priorities
• Review technical architecture proposals and ensuring considerations have been made on cost, scalability, performance, resilience, testability, observability and maintainability
• Improve knowledge sharing and collaboration, within and between teams, to remove roadblocks and keep teams performing well
• Take responsibility for planning, execution and success of complex projects
• Drive a culture of cross-team learning, encouraging the team to present to the wider organisation on key learnings

Preferred Qualifications

• Ideally knowledge across mobile, frontend and backend in a modern 'you build it, you own it' environment
• Experience managing distributed teams is highly desirable
• It would be great if you had knowledge of the payments or FinTech industry but it isn't essential

Benefits

• 100% remote working - work from anywhere you like, however you like
• Competitive share options
• Uncapped holiday, with 25 days minimum to be taken
• Co-working space access
• Team socials - quarterly workations, annual company retreats and virtual events
• The best equipment for your role
• Additional £500 towards your home office setup
• Unlimited learning budget
• Medical insurance via SafetyWings
• Location-specific benefits - pension, 401k, health insurance etc