About this role
Role Overview
- Deliver backend features end to end, from a defined spec through to production, keeping the team updated on progress and flagging blockers early
- Build and ship backend services that handle real payment volume, with support from senior engineers on the harder design and reliability calls
- Take part in architecture and design discussions, ask good questions, and learn how the team makes technical decisions
- Keep an eye on how your work behaves in production, spot issues early, and help drive them to resolution with the team
- Write code your peers consider high quality: production-ready, thoughtful on error paths, and built with the next engineer in mind
- Work to Primer's engineering standards and build a real understanding of why they exist
- Collaborate with the Orchestration team on scoping sessions, code reviews, and the technical decisions that shape how the system evolves
Requirements
- Backend engineering experience and a track record of shipping working software. You can take a well-defined piece of work and deliver it through to production
- A working understanding of how backend systems behave, and genuine curiosity about why things fail in production
- Comfort with REST APIs and the patterns that make services reliable and easy to reason about
- Real interest in what happens after you hit deploy: monitoring, rollout, and the health of what you've built
- Willingness to ask questions, take feedback well, and learn quickly from more experienced engineers around you
- Experience in a payments, fintech, or infrastructure context is a plus, though depth of engineering matters more than the specific industry
Benefits
- Competitive share options
- Uncapped holiday, with 25 days minimum to be taken
- Co-working space access
- 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)