Primer
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“Engineering Manager at Primer. Skills: leading a team of engineers, owning software architecture, managing development processes, growing engineers, product collaboration, technical credibility, operational ownership, stakeholder communication. Lead a team of engineers owning a defined area of software architecture. taking responsibility for delivery, quality, and technical direction”
What You'll Achieve.
delivery, quality, and technical direction; effective development process; sustainable on-call rotation that doesn't burn people out; Grow the engineers on your team; move people forward; clear heads-up when capacity is constrained; Define the right metrics for your team's systems; use them to explain performance; catch variance; drive improvements before they become incidents; Handle the difficult conversations... before they become problems that need escalating
Industry & Context.
spot risks early; drive improvements before they become incidents; Handle the difficult conversations, whether that's performance issues, interpersonal friction, or delivery risk
on-call culture, incident management, postmortems, remote-first
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
background as a software engineer, hands-on experience building and shipping production systems, Experience managing a team of engineers, track record of building effective development processes, track record of growing individual contributors, Technically credible enough to evaluate design decisions, challenge assumptions, and be taken seriously by engineers, Comfortable with operational ownership: on-call culture, incident management, postmortems, and the unglamorous work of keeping systems healthy, Clear, direct communication with stakeholders and leadership, including knowing when and how to escalate and when not to, Able to operate with meaningful autonomy
Nice to Have
Experience in fintech, payments, or a similarly regulated and high-stakes technical domain, Familiarity with distributed systems and the trade-offs that come with high-throughput, high-availability infrastructure
What You'll Do.
Lead a team of engineers owning a defined area of software architecture
taking responsibility for delivery
and technical direction
Run an effective development process: sprint health
and a sustainable on-call rotation that doesn't burn people out
Grow the engineers on your team through regular feedback
performance conversations
and stretch assignments that actually move people forward
Work closely with product to scope initiatives
and prioritise deliverables
giving clear heads-up when capacity is constrained
Stay close enough to your team's technical work to ask the right questions
and contribute meaningfully to design discussions without becoming a bottleneck
Define the right metrics for your team's systems
use them to explain performance
and drive improvements before they become incidents
Handle the difficult conversations
whether that's performance issues
interpersonal friction
before they become problems that need escalating
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work closely with product to scope initiatives, identify risks, and prioritise deliverables; Stay close enough to your team's technical work to ask the right questions, spot risks early, and contribute meaningfully to design discussions; Clear, direct communication with stakeholders and leadership; collaborative environment
Communication Scope
Clear, direct communication with stakeholders and leadership; knowing when and how to escalate and when not to
Process & Methodology
sprint health, delivery cadence, prioritise deliverables, capacity management
Full Job Description
An Introduction to Primer Primer is the unified infrastructure for global payments. We give finance and payments teams the visibility and control to reduce complexity, improve performance, and capture more revenue - all from a single platform. Backed by Sofina, Peak XV Partners, ICONIQ, Tencent, Accel, and Balderton, we're building the payments layer the world's best companies rely on. Watch our showcase > https://primer.io/the-primer-showcase Read up on our $100m Series C https://www.primer.io/blog/series-c Learn more about our culture > https://primer.io/careers WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING? - Lead a team of engineers owning a defined area of software architecture, taking responsibility for delivery, quality, and technical direction - Run an effective development process: sprint health, delivery cadence, incident response, postmortems, and a sustainable on-call rotation that doesn't burn people out - Grow the engineers on your team through regular feedback, performance conversations, and stretch assignments that actually move people forward - Work closely with product to scope initiatives, identify risks, and prioritise deliverables, giving clear heads-up when capacity is constrained - Stay close enough to your team's technical work to ask the right questions, spot risks early, and contribute meaningfully to design discussions without becoming a bottleneck - Define the right metrics for your team's systems, use them to explain performance, catch variance, and drive improvements before they become incidents - Handle the difficult conversations, whether that's performance issues, interpersonal friction, or delivery risk, before they become problems that need escalating WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - A background as a software engineer, with hands-on experience building and shipping production systems. This is a hard requirement. - Experience managing a team of engineers, with a track record of building effective development processes and growing individual contributors - Tech
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