Primer
payments
StaffSoftwareEngineer,Backend
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“Staff Software Engineer, Backend at Primer. Skills: technical strategy, backend engineering expertise, distributed systems at scale, payments infrastructure, developer platform engineering. Setting and driving the technical strategy across the Partners engineering teams, from architecture decisions through to hands-on implementation. Owning the design of core backend services for high-performance distributed systems, with scale and reliability as non-negotiables”
What You'll Achieve.
reduce complexity; improve performance; capture more revenue; building the payments layer the world's best companies rely on; raising the bar on what "seamless" actually means; holding the line on quality; building exceptional products; delivering success for our merchants
Industry & Context.
Spotting and resolving cross-team technical dependencies before they become blockers
remote-first, not comfortable with shifting context and navigating ambiguity
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Demonstrable experience operating at staff or principal level — setting technical direction across multiple teams, not just within one, Deep backend engineering expertise, with a track record of designing and building distributed systems at scale, The kind of judgment that earns trust fast — engineers follow your technical lead because you're right, not because of your title, Experience with Python, Solid understanding of payments infrastructure or developer platform engineering — you know what it takes to build for third-party integrators, written and verbal you can make complex technical decisions legible to non-technical stakeholders
Nice to Have
Knowledge of payments infrastructure or developer platform engineering
What You'll Do.
Setting and driving the technical strategy across the Partners engineering teams
from architecture decisions through to hands-on implementation
Owning the design of core backend services for high-performance distributed systems
with scale and reliability as non-negotiables
Acting as the technical authority on partner integrations — shaping how third-party PSPs connect with Primer's platform and raising the bar on what "seamless" actually means
Leading and influencing engineers across teams without direct authority — through code
and technical mentorship
Spotting and resolving cross-team technical dependencies before they become blockers
Driving adoption of modern engineering practices (BDD
rigorous documentation) and holding the line on quality
Partnering closely with Product to shape roadmap decisions where the technical constraints or opportunities are material
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
influencing engineers across teams without direct authority; Spotting and resolving cross-team technical dependencies; Partnering closely with Product; working with a team of people who are mission-driven, smart, and reflective; collaborative environment; a great team around you; It’s never a challenge that you will face alone
Communication Scope
written and verbal you can make complex technical decisions legible to non-technical stakeholders
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? - Setting and driving the technical strategy across the Partners engineering teams, from architecture decisions through to hands-on implementation - Owning the design of core backend services for high-performance distributed systems, with scale and reliability as non-negotiables - Acting as the technical authority on partner integrations — shaping how third-party PSPs connect with Primer's platform and raising the bar on what "seamless" actually means - Leading and influencing engineers across teams without direct authority — through code, design reviews, and technical mentorship - Spotting and resolving cross-team technical dependencies before they become blockers - Driving adoption of modern engineering practices (BDD, TDD, rigorous documentation) and holding the line on quality - Partnering closely with Product to shape roadmap decisions where the technical constraints or opportunities are material WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - Demonstrable experience operating at staff or principal level — setting technical direction across multiple teams, not just within one - Deep backend engineering expertise, with a track record of designing and building distributed systems at scale - The kind of judgment that earns trust fast — engineers follow your technical lead because you're right, not because of your title - Experience with Python is a strong advantage; we're less concerned about specific
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