Primer
Engineering
EngineeringManager-Partners
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“Engineering Manager - Partners at Primer. Skills: Platform engineering, API design, Developer experience. Own delivery end to end. Lead engineers”
Industry & Context.
Resolve ambiguity; Troubleshooting
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Experience managing software engineers, Technical depth for system design, Platform/API/integration systems background, Experience with external developer consumption
Nice to Have
Experience with developer platforms, Experience with marketplaces, Experience with ecosystem products, Exposure to payments, Exposure to fintech
What You'll Do.
Own delivery end to end
Review design decisions
Treat external developers as users
Push for stable contracts
Push for clear documentation
Shape a realistic roadmap
Drive operational excellence
Manage incident response
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partnering with Product; Cross-functional teams
Communication Scope
Clear documentation
Process & Methodology
Roadmap planning
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 Which team will you be joining? Primer's power grows every time a new partner plugs in, and the Partners team is what makes that possible at scale. In the Partners team we build the platform that lets third parties unlock Primer's unified payments infrastructure and use it as a foundation for their own growth. We're building the app store for payments: a scalable, flexible ecosystem where partners discover, integrate, and distribute through Primer. The team covers the Partner Dashboard, Partner Integration Ownership and Management, Marketplace, Documentation and Samples, Payment and Workflow Integrations, and Nexus, the underlying integration framework that powers everything under the hood. Partners runs as two sub-teams: Partner Experience, focused on the tools and interfaces that make Primer an easy and attractive platform for third parties to build on; and Integrations Core, focused on the technical frameworks that make integrations scalable, consistent, and maintainable. You'll lead Partners as its Engineering Manager: owning delivery, growth, and technical direction across both sub-teams, reporting into engineering leadership and partnering closely with Product. It's a rare remit, because almost everything the team builds is consumed by external developers, so the bar for clarity, stability, and design is higher than usual. The decisions you make shape how an entire ecosystem builds on top of Primer.
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