Primer

Engineering

SeniorSoftwareEngineer

€200–320k ~AI est. Poland; Portugal; Hungary; Romania; South Africa FULL TIME Remote Friendly
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Senior Software Engineer at Primer. Skills: Backend services, Distributed systems. Lead design of backend services. Implement core backend services”

Industry & Context.

Engineering

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

In-depth understanding of development process, Knowledge of building developer frameworks, Based in Poland, Portugal, Hungary, Romania or South Africa

Nice to Have

Experience in Python is advantageous, Payments knowledge

What You'll Do.

Lead design of backend services

Implement core backend services

Take ownership of technology decisions

Create well tested code

Collaborate across teams

Improve ways of working

Create internal documentation

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Product-driven environment

Communication Scope

Verbal communication; Written communication; Internal documentation

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? - 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 - Driving and using modern development practices such as BDD and TDD would be highly beneficial - 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   👀 WHAT WE’D LOVE TO SEE: - 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 - 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 - Highly motivated self-starter who values autonomy and getting things done - Excellent verbal and written communication skills - Payments knowledge, always looking for ways to optimise our merchant developer experience - You will need to be based in: Poland, Portugal, Hungary, Romania or South Africa.   ✅ A TYPICAL INTERVIEW PROCESS - An initial intro call with a Talent Partner - An interview with

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