An Introduction to Primer
We’re the world's first unified payment infrastructure, empowering businesses worldwide to unleash their payment potential. By choosing our platform, merchants can take control over their payment stack, create unique commerce experiences, accelerate their roadmap and increase payment success. We strive to make something complex incredibly simple and intuitive. The world's top investors, including Accel, Balderton, Iconiq, and Tencent, have invested in Primer's vision to rebuild payments and commerce from the ground up.
Join us in shaping the future of payments and commerce.
What We’re Looking For
We're looking for a software engineer who thrives at the intersection of data, software and infrastructure. You've worked in data-intensive environments and enjoy designing clean systems that move and transform data at scale. You’re someone who approaches data engineering as a software discipline — building reliable, tested, maintainable systems that empower others.
You'll work on building internal tools, pipelines, and APIs that support analytics, product features, and machine learning applications. You'll collaborate closely with both product and engineering teams to make our data infrastructure seamless, efficient, and delightful to use.
Stack
- Cloud: AWS
- Data Stores: Relational and non-relational e.g. CockroachDB, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch
- Data Warehouse: Snowflake
- Processing: Batch & streaming including CDC pipelines
- Languages: Python
- Infrastructure: Kubernetes + Helm, Terraform (IaC)
- Orchestration & Transformations: dbt
- Observability: OpenTelemetry, Datadog
- Dev Practices: CI/CD, automated testing, containerisation
Core Skills
- Strong software engineering fundamentals: testing, code reviews, clean abstractions
- Proficient in Python and SQL
- Comfortable working across infrastructure and data systems
- Experience building and maintaining batch and/or streaming data pipelines
- Familiarity with modern data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake) and transformation tools like dbt
- Comfortable navigating cloud-native ecosystems (AWS, K8s, Terraform)
Mindset & Collaboration
- Clear and thoughtful communicator (written and verbal)
- Detail-oriented
- Team player (“our code,” not “my code”)
- Eager to learn and share
- Adaptable — comfortable with ambiguity and shifting priorities
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
- You don’t enjoy testing your code, we have no testers or QA’s here at Primer
Our interview process
Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorships or relocation packages at this time.
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 workations, 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. Startups 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.
Our benefits:
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We are fully remote
- 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
- Medical insurance
- A broad set of additional perks and benefits (depending on location)
Don’t meet every single requirement?
At Primer, we’re dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply. You may be the right candidate for this or other roles. Primer is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees, regardless of background or beliefs—see our diversity commitment statement for more details
Primer adopts a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination.
We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all current and prospective employees regardless of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
