Senior Engineer, Backend - Orchestration

The role

You will lead the design and implementation of core backend services for high-performance, complex distributed systems. You will take ownership of technology decisions and collaborate across teams in a product-driven environment.

What you will do

• 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
• 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

Required qualifications

• In-depth understanding of the entire development process (design, development and deployment)
• Knowledge of building developer frameworks and workflows
• Highly motivated self-starter who values autonomy and getting things done
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Payments knowledge

Nice to have

• Driving and using modern development practices such as BDD and TDD
• Experience in Python

Benefits

• Fully remote and globally distributed
• Competitive share options
• Flexible holiday, with 25 days minimum to be taken
• Co-working space access across major cities
• 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)

Before you apply

• An initial intro call with a Talent Partner
• An interview with the Hiring Manager
• Challenge Stage - Contextualised to the role
• A final, values-alignment interview

About the company

Primer is the unified infrastructure for global payments. They provide finance and payments teams visibility and control to reduce complexity and improve performance.