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Primer · 1 month ago

Senior Backend Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

Primer.io is the world's first unified payment infrastructure, empowering businesses to unleash their payment potential. The Senior Backend Engineer will design and implement core backend services, collaborate across teams, and take ownership of key technology decisions in a remote-first environment.

E-CommerceFinTechMobile PaymentsPaymentsSoftware

No H1B

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

PythonDistributed systemsAWSKubernetesTerraformTypescriptPayments knowledgeCommunication skillsSelf-starter

Required

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

Highly motivated self-starter who values autonomy and getting things done

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred

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

Payments knowledge, always looking for ways to optimise our merchant developer experience