Staff Frontend Architect — Remote & Learning Budget

Primer; United States; Remote; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive share options

Uncapped holiday

Workations & Company Retreat

£500 towards home office setup

Generous learning budget

Job summary

Primer is recruiting a Staff Engineer to set the front-end technical direction across the Account Experience teams, spanning multiple areas from Setup to Monitors and Auditing. You will own the architecture of a complex merchant platform and help mature Primer AI Companion as a first-class interface.

The role requires leadership without direct authority, excellent collaboration, and a hands-on approach to implementation.

Qualifications

• Deep front-end engineering expertise with TypeScript and React.
• Experience architecting complex, long-lived web applications.
• Proven ability to lead across multiple teams without direct authority.
• Strong communication with product, design, and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfort working in payments/fintech or platform contexts.

Responsibilities

• Set front-end technical direction across Account Experience teams.
• Own architecture of a data-dense merchant platform.
• Shape Primer AI Companion front-end maturity and architecture.
• Maintain coherence across Account Setup, Monitors, Workflows, and Auditing.
• Mentor engineers and raise the front-end bar across teams.
• Ensure accessibility, performance budgets, and observability as core concerns.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and backend engineers to inform decisions.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Front-end architecture

Performance optimization

Accessibility

Leadership without authority

Communication

Job description

Primer is recruiting a Staff Engineer to set the front-end technical direction across the Account Experience teams, spanning multiple areas from Setup to Monitors and Auditing. You will own the architecture of a complex merchant platform and help mature Primer AI Companion as a first-class interface.

The role requires leadership without direct authority, excellent collaboration, and a hands-on approach to implementation.