Software Engineer

SupportFinity™; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 1 386 000 - 2 080 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading payment technology company is seeking a Backend Engineer to design and implement core services for high-performance systems. Enjoy a remote-first culture with competitive benefits and a focus on innovation, including Python, Typescript, and AWS. Ideal for self-starters who thrive in complex environments.

Benefits

Competitive share options

Uncapped holiday, minimum 25 days

Home office setup funding

Generous learning budget

Workations & Company Retreat

Qualifications

• Proven experience in modern, complex technical environments is essential.
• Python experience is preferred, but OOP languages like Java or Golang will be considered.
• Experience with testing frameworks and maintaining code quality.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement core backend services for complex distributed systems.
• Drive modern development practices such as BDD and TDD.
• Collaborate across teams in a product-driven environment.

Skills

Proven experience in modern, complex technical environments

Python experience

Experience with testing frameworks

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Ability to navigate ambiguity

Tools

Python

Java

Golang

Job description

Overview

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.

Team

A Primer payment is worth so much more than a regular payment!

Our Management team enables merchants to streamline the management of their payments, as well as making it easier to manage complex workflows and accounts.

You’ll join a team of backend, full-stack, and frontend engineers all working together alongside our Product team.

The team adopts a ‘you build it, you own it’ approach, working with infrastructure, doing their own testing and QA.

Our tech stack includes: Python, Typescript, React, AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform amongst lots of other things.

What will you be doing?

• Designing and implementing core backend services for high performance, complex distributed systems
• Driving and using modern development practices such as BDD and TDD would be highly beneficial
• Creating clear, modern, well tested code
• Collaborating across teams in a product-driven environment
• Taking ownership of key technology decisions, building for scale and optimising for output
• Conducting code reviews and continuously look at ways of improving our ways of working
• Creating detailed internal documentation for the projects you work on

What we’d love to see

• Proven experience in modern, complex technical environments
• Python experience is preferred but we would also consider candidates who have worked with other OOP languages such as Java, Golang etc.
• Experience with testing frameworks and a good approach to writing testable, maintainable code.
• Be willing to set goals, success metrics, driving and setting up sprints and driving refinement sessions of the tickets and driving delivery side on a day to day basis.
• In-depth understanding of the entire development process (design, development and deployment)
• Highly motivated self-starter who values autonomy and getting things done
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment.

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

Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorships or relocation packages at this time.

Interview process

• 30 minute call with a Talent Partner
• 45 minute Engineering Manager Interview
• 90 minute Coding interview
• 60 minute System Design interview
• 60 minute final stage values-alignment interview

Life at Primer

We’ve been recognised as a top global employer, #1 in FinTech for ‘flexibility’! We’re building a culture where people can come and do their best work and enjoy it. 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 workstations, our annual company retreat, and co-working space access worldwide.

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.

🌍 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

📅 Workations & Company Retreat

💻 The best equipment for your role

🏠 £500 towards your home office setup

🔎 Generous learning budget

📈 A broad set of additional perks and benefits (depending on location)

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.

We are committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees, regardless of background or beliefs.