Senior Backend Engineer

Our tech stack includes: Python, Typescript, React, AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform amongst lots of other things.

• 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.

• In-depth understanding of the entire development process (design, development and deployment).
• Knowledge of building developer frameworks and workflows, allowing both customers and third-parties to integrate as seamlessly as possible.
• Experience in Python is advantageous (it's what we use!) but we have had success hiring engineers of any technical background and understand that people can adapt.
• Highly motivated self-starter who values autonomy and getting things done.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Payments knowledge, always looking for ways to optimise our merchant developer experience.

• 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.
• You don’t enjoy testing your code, we have no testers or QA’s here at Primer.