An Introduction to Primer
Primer is the unified infrastructure for global payments. We give finance and payments teams the visibility and control to reduce complexity, improve performance, and capture more revenue - all from a single platform.
Backed by Sofina, Peak XV Partners, ICONIQ, Tencent, Accel, and Balderton, we're building the payments layer the world's best companies rely on.
Watch our showcase > https://primer.io/the-primer-showcase
Read up on our $100m Series C https://www.primer.io/blog/series-c
Learn more about our culture > https://primer.io/careers
Which team will you be joining?
You'll be joining the Growth team, which owns merchant onboarding and activation: everything between a new account and a first live payment. It's a newly formed team taking on a new product area for Primer, so there's a lot of scope to shape both what we build and how.
Primer is remote-first and globally distributed — always will be.
What will you be doing?
- Lead frontend architecture and technical direction for the self-serve onboarding and platform experience, with real ownership over how it's built, not just what gets shipped
- You’ll spend roughly 80% of your hands-on codebase time on frontend and 20% on backend. That split is a guide, not a rule, and it will shift in either direction depending on what we're focused on at the time.
- Partner closely with Design to take onboarding and platform experience from concept to production, shaping the details that decide whether a merchant's first steps with Primer feels effortless or frustrating
- Mentor and raise the bar for the engineers who join the team, you're the person newer engineers learn frontend craft from
- Set frontend conventions and quality standards for a team that's still being built — architecture reviews, code quality, testing approach, all early enough that your calls stick
- Contribute to the Python backend where it's needed to unblock frontend work or ship a feature end to end, without needing deep backend expertise going in
What we're looking for
- Strong, proven frontend expertise — production experience architecting and building complex frontend applications, not just consuming a design system
- Comfortable being the most senior frontend voice in the room, including pushing back on design or product where the frontend reality demands it
- Some backend experience and a genuine willingness to work in a Python codebase — depth isn't required, but you shouldn't be reluctant to touch it
- Experience mentoring other engineers, ideally including people earlier in their career than you
Nice to have, not required:
- Experience building or integrating payment products
- Experience in a growth, onboarding, or activation-focused product surface
What you should be aware of:
- The team is still forming, so you're inheriting mentoring responsibility for people who haven't been hired yet — the "who" of who you're mentoring is still unknown
- Remote-first, high autonomy, no hand-holding — you're expected to set your own standards, not follow someone else's playbook
- Early-stage team means some ambiguity on process and tooling that a more established team would already have solved
✅ 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 do their best work and be proud of the impact they have. You'll be working with people who are mission-driven, smart, and reflective, and who are genuinely invested in building exceptional products and delivering success for our merchants.
We work remotely, and have done since day one. We believe that building a successful, profitable company goes beyond proximity. We invest in our relationships through great remote working practices and thoughtfully designed face-to-face time, including workations, our annual company retreat, and…