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.
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What team will you be joining?
Primer's power grows every time a new partner plugs in — and we make that possible at scale!
In the Partners team we build the platform that enables third parties to 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 can discover, integrate, and distribute through Primer.
This team covers: Partner Dashboard, Partner Integration Ownership & Management, Marketplace, Documentation & Samples, Payment & Workflow Integrations, and the underlying integration framework (Nexus) that powers everything under the hood.
Partners is made up of two sub-teams: Partner Experience, focused on the tools and interfaces that make Primer an attractive and easy platform for third parties to build on; and Integrations Core, focused on the technical frameworks that make integrations scalable, consistent, and maintainable.
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's the culture like at Primer?
We're building a culture where people can do their best work and be proud of the impact they have. You'll be working with people who are mission-driven, smart, and reflective, and who are genuinely invested in building exceptional products and delivering success for our merchants.
We work remotely, and have done since day one. We believe that building a successful, profitable company goes beyond proximity. We invest in our relationships through great remote working practices and thoughtfully designed face-to-face time, including workations, our annual company retreat, and access to co-working spaces across most major cities.
The work is challenging. Scaleups are a challenge, and building category-defining products is a challenge. But there's a meaningful difference between a challenge and a struggle. At Primer, the right challenge comes with the right support: strong onboarding, a collaborative environment, and a team that is genuinely invested in your success. It's never something you face alone.
Our benefits
- We are fully remote and globally distributed; and have been since day one
- Competitive share options
- Uncapped holiday, with 25 days minimum to be taken
- Co-working space access across major cities
- Workations & Company Retreat
- The best equipment for your role
- £500 towards your home office setup
- Generous learning budget
- Private Medical Insurance
- A broad set of additional perks and benefits (depending on location)
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 languages than we are about depth of backend systems thinking
- Solid understanding of payments infrastructure or developer platform engineering — you know what it takes to build for third-party integrators
- Strong written and verbal communication; you can make complex technical decisions legible to non-technical stakeholders
