An Introduction to Primer
The 21st century has witnessed remarkable expansion within the payments ecosystem with the introduction of new payment services, growth in cross-border commerce, and the development of multi-payment processor payment strategies.
The bottom line is that payment is no longer just another step in the purchasing funnel but a strategic asset that can drive business growth and innovation.
Enter Primer – 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.
Primer’s enterprise-grade infrastructure, frameworks, and tooling allow merchants to unify their disparate payment solutions and services to build optimised payment flows tailored to their unique business needs with no code or additional complexity. We strive to make something complex incredibly simple and intuitive.
Our success so far has been reflected in the trust placed in us by category leaders such as Printify, NewLook, Voi, and Dabble, who are using Primer to transform their payments into a growth lever. Moreover, the world’s top investors, including Accel, Balderton, Iconiq, and Tencent, have also invested in Primer’s vision to rebuild payments and commerce from the ground up.
Join us in shaping the future of payments and commerce. Let’s pave the way for a world where businesses can fully realise their payment potential.
What will the role involve?
- Creating the best checkout experience in the world! Rethinking how merchants integrate payments, and how customers are paying online
- Designing, implementing and maintaining fully-tested and highly-optimised libraries
- Creating first-class documentation for both merchants and internal teams
- Working closely with users to analyse feedback and improve our products and services with each iteration
- Making decisions on technology, building for scale and reach
- Conducting code reviews and mentoring juniors in future as we grow the team
- Maintaining the SDK
- Working closely with a cross-functional team of front end engineers, back end engineers, mobile engineers, designers and product
What are we looking for?
- Someone pragmatic and versatile, who will use the best tools to build out the product
- Experience in building, maintaining and documenting developer libraries
- Relevant experience with iOS – any experience with React Native is also interesting
- Passion for maintainable, performant, well-tested and resilient code
- Appreciation for the Developer Experience we’ll be creating
- Excellent communication skills, able to collaborate in a cross-functional team
- Curiosity and interest to learn!
- It would be amazing to speak to people with previous experience of JavaScript UI optimisation; accessibility best practices; and online payments and APMs
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
🖥 Any device 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.
Don’t meet every single requirement?
Studies have shown that women and under-represented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles
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.