Software Engineer II - Growth (FE)

Primer.io; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Competitive stock options

Uncapped holidays with 25 days minimum

Co-working space access

Workations & Company Retreat

Home office stipend (£500)

Learning budget

Private medical insurance

Location-based benefits

Job summary

Primer is a remote-first, globally distributed company building the payments layer that powers merchants. You’ll join the Growth team, owning merchant onboarding and activation from new account to first live payment.

You’ll ship frontend features in React for the self-serve onboarding and dashboard, learn from a hands-on senior engineer, and contribute to backend Python when needed. Expect early-stage ambiguity, a strong culture, and remote work across locations.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping production frontend features with growing autonomy.
• Comfortable writing tests and handling edge cases.
• Genuine interest in onboarding/activation space and user experience.

Responsibilities

• Ship frontend features for the self-serve onboarding and platform experience, with guidance from senior engineers.
• Build the dashboard experience merchants use to onboard with Primer using React.
• Collaborate with Design and backend teammates to deliver users’ first experience with Primer.

Skills

Frontend development

Testing

Edge cases

Onboarding interest

Problem solving

Tools

React

Python

Job description

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 >

Read up on our $100m Series C

Learn more about our culture >

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?

• Ship frontend features for the self-serve onboarding and platform experience, with support from more senior engineers on scoping and architecture
• Work in React building the dashboard experience merchants use to onboard with Primer
• Learn from a hands-on senior frontend engineer who’s setting the team’s conventions and standards as you go
• Deploy your own features to production and track their impact once they’re live
• Get real exposure to how a merchant’s first experience with Primer is designed and built, working closely with Design
• Contribute to the Python backend where useful — no prior backend experience required, just a willingness to get stuck in when needed

What we’re looking for

• Experience shipping production frontend features, with growing autonomy and less need for hand-holding on the basics
• Comfortable writing tests and thinking through edge cases and error handling, even if you still lean on others for the trickier ones
• Genuine interest in the onboarding/activation space — the details of a merchant’s first experience matter here
• Willingness to contribute to backend Python code if required

Nice to have, not required:

• Previous React experience
• Experience building or integrating payment products

What you should be aware of:

• Early-stage team means some ambiguity on process and tooling that a more established team would already have solved
• Remote-first, high autonomy, no hand-holding — expect to figure things out rather than follow an existing playbook

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 access to co-working spaces across most major cities.

The work is challenging. Scaleups are a challenge, and building category-defining products is a challenge. But there’s a meaningful difference between a challenge and a struggle. At Primer, the right challenge comes with the right support: strong onboarding, a collaborative environment, and a team that is genuinely invested in your success. It’s never something you face alone.

Our benefits

• We are fully remote and globally distributed; and have been since day one
• Competitive share options
• Uncapped holiday, with 25 days minimum to be taken
• Co-working space access across major cities
• Workations & Company Retreat
• The best equipment for your role
• £500 towards your home office setup
• Generous learning budget
• Private 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 experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification listed, 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 and adopts a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination, regardless of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, or any other background or belief.