Engineering Manager
The last two decades have seen an explosion in new payment services - from digital wallets, mobile payments, and open banking, to Buy Now Pay Later and crypto. Great for consumers! But, incredibly complex for merchants and developers. That’s where Primer comes in.
Primer is the world's first automation platform for payments. With Primer, merchants and developers have all the underlying infrastructure and "lego blocks" they need to build the best buying experiences for their customers. Any developer can build a connection on Primer; merchants then simply 'click and connect' to the services they need to build their desired payment flows within their Primer dashboard.
Since starting in January 2020, we've raised funding from top tier investors including Accel, Balderton and Iconiq. Our all-star team from across the world of payments and fintech includes ex Braintree-PayPal, Stripe, Checkout, Tink, Recurly, TrueLayer, Paddle, Plaid, Kount and more - come and join us!
What is the role?
- Leading a team of engineers and technical leaders, cultivating an environment of continuous learning and collaboration
- Optimising engineering processes and resourcing across the teams to optimise delivery
- Collaborating with engineering leadership in setting team strategy and priorities
- Reviewing technical architecture proposals and ensuring considerations have been made on cost, scalability, performance, resilience, testability, observability and maintainability
- Improving knowledge sharing and collaboration, within and between teams, to remove roadblocks and keep teams performing well
- Taking responsibility for planning, execution and success of complex projects
- Driving a culture of cross-team learning, encouraging the team to present to the wider organisation on key learnings
What are we looking for?
- Experience in running multiple teams, growing technical leaders and scaling teams
- A track record of creating high performing autonomous engineering teams in high paced startup environments
- A start-up mentality, with experience building MVPs
- Experience managing distributed teams is highly desirable
- Passion about people, with the ability to inspire, coach and mentor to help people perform at their best
The way we work is different at Primer
Our culture is about removing the roadblocks to doing your best work. We focus on taking initiative, letting the best ideas win, and valuing output over anything else.
Underpinning all of this is our 'trust by default'. You’ll work remotely, wherever works best for you, have unlimited coworking access, unlimited time off, no company spending approvals, regular whole company retreats, team workations, and open access to people across the company.
We find the best thinking and work come from removing limiting assumptions. So, one of our favourite approaches to solving problems is simply: If anything is possible, then what will you do?
Our benefits:
- 100% remote working - work from anywhere you like, however you like 🌍
- Competitive share options 📈
- Uncapped holiday, with 25 days minimum to be taken ✈️
- Co-working space access 🗣
- Team socials - quarterly workations, annual company retreats and virtual events 🥳
- Laptop, screens and accessories of your choosing! 🖥
- Additional £500 towards your home office setup 🪴
- Unlimited learning budget 🧠
- Medical insurance via SafetyWings 🩺
- Location-specific benefits - pension, 401k, health insurance etc.
Primer provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.