Software Engineer, Backend

An Introduction to Primer We’re the world's first unified payment infrastructure, empowering businesses worldwide to unleash their payment potential. By choosing our platform, merchants can take control over their payment stack, create unique commerce experiences, accelerate their roadmap and increase payment success. We strive to make something complex, incredibly simple and intuitive. The world's top investors, including Accel, Balderton, Iconiq, and Tencent, have invested in Primer's vision to rebuild payments and commerce from the ground up. Join us in shaping the future of payments and commerce. Which team will you be joining? As it stands, we currently have multiple teams hiring for backend engineers. Our talent team will be able to provide you with more information on what these teams cover at the interview stage. Reporting to an Engineering Manager, you’ll join a team of backend, full-stack, and frontend engineers all working together alongside our Product team. The team adopts a ‘you build it, you own it’ approach, working with infrastructure, doing their own testing and QA. Our tech stack includes: Python, Typescript, React, AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform, amongst lots of other things. What will you be doing? - Designing and implementing core backend services for high performance, complex distributed systems - 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 - Taking ownership of key technology decisions, building for scale and optimising for output - Conducting code reviews and continuously look at ways of improving our ways of working - Creating detailed internal documentation for the projects you work on