Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

The job is for a backend engineer at Primer, a unified payment infrastructure provider. The role involves designing APIs, creating developer frameworks, collaborating with teams, making key technology decisions, conducting code reviews, improving workflows, developing deep payments expertise, and creating internal documentation.

Requirements

• 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
• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• We are fully remote
• 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
• Medical insurance
• A broad set of additional perks and benefits ( depending on location)