Primer.io - Staff Software Engineer, Backend

• 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 • 🚫 You may not like it here if: • You enjoy working in an office-setting, we are remote-first and always will be! • You are not comfortable with shifting context and navigating ambiguity • ✅ A typical interview process • An initial intro call with a Talent Partner • An interview with the Hiring Manager • Challenge Stage - Contextualised to the role • A final, values-alignment interview • What’s the culture like at Primer? • We’re building a culture where people can come and do their best work and enjoy it. We want our people to be proud of the impact that they have at Primer, and of the work that they are doing. You will be working with a team of people who are mission-driven, smart, and reflective, and who are invested in building exceptional products and delivering success for our merchants (and we also know how to have fun along the way). • We work remotely. We believe that building a successful, profitable company goes beyond proximity. We invest in our relationships with each other through great remote working practices and thoughtfully designed face-to-face time together. Our heads-together time comes in the form of workstations, our annual company retreat, and co-working space access worldwide. • Finally, let’s go ahead and say it. The work that we do is challenging. Scaleups are a challenge, building category defining products is a challenge. You should be prepared for a challenge at Primer. But, there’s a big difference between a challenge and a struggle. The key difference is that the right challenge comes with the right support structures, an acceptance that not everything always goes to plan, a collaborative environment, and a great team around you. It’s never a challenge that you will face alone.