Primer

Engineering

EngineeringManager-Partners

£105–155k ~AI est. United Kingdom FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Engineering Manager - Partners at Primer. Skills: Platform engineering, API design, Developer experience. Own delivery end to end. Lead engineers”

Industry & Context.

Engineering
Problems you'll solve

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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