Software Engineer II

Summary

Join Primer, a leading unified payment infrastructure company, and contribute to shaping the future of payments and commerce. As a Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and implementing core backend services for high-performance, complex distributed systems. You will work in a fully remote environment, collaborating with a team of backend, frontend, and mobile engineers. Primer offers a competitive salary, uncapped holiday, co-working space access, workations, company retreats, generous learning budget, private medical insurance, and other benefits.

Requirements

• 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
• Highly motivated self-starter who values autonomy and getting things done
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing core backend services for high performance, complex distributed systems
• Creating clear, modern, well tested code
• Collaborating across teams in a product-driven environment
• 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
• Creating detailed internal documentation for the projects you work on

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 and understand that people can adapt
• Payments knowledge, always looking for ways to optimise our merchant developer experience

Benefits

• We are fully remote and globally distributed; and have been since day one
• 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
• Private Medical Insurance
• A broad set of additional perks and benefits ( depending on location)