Software Engineer III, Backend - Orchestration

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Poland.

📋 Description

• Take complete ownership of backend features from initial scoping to production, ensuring the team is kept updated on progress, risks, and obstacles without needing reminders.

• Design and implement backend services that manage significant payment volumes, emphasizing reliability, performance, and correctness at scale.

• Participate in architectural discussions, present proposals to the engineering council, and advocate for clear service contracts along with straightforward, maintainable system designs.

• Monitor the production impact of your work, proactively identify issues, and drive incidents to resolution as they occur.

• Write code that is regarded by your peers as high quality: production-ready, thoughtfully designed with error paths in mind, and created with consideration for future engineers.

• Actively engage in maintaining Primer's engineering standards, voice concerns when gaps are identified, and assist the team in upholding a consistent quality standard.

• Collaborate with engineers from the Orchestration team during scoping sessions, code reviews, and technical decisions that influence the system's evolution.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong backend engineering experience, capable of transforming ambiguous requirements into functional, production-ready software with minimal supervision.

• Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals: you know the reasons behind production failures and design accordingly.

• Proficient in working with REST APIs and familiar with the patterns that ensure services are reliable, observable, and easy to understand.

• Experience managing projects from start to finish — not only coding but also considering monitoring, rollout, and post-deployment scenarios.

• The confidence to engage in architectural discussions, ask pertinent questions, and challenge design decisions that seem illogical.

• Background in payments, fintech, or infrastructure contexts is advantageous, although the depth of engineering expertise is more critical than the specific sector.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote and globally distributed; this has been our policy since inception.

• Competitive share options.

• Unlimited holiday, with a minimum requirement of 25 days to be taken.

• Access to co-working spaces.

• Opportunities for workations and company retreats.

• Top-tier equipment provided for your role.

• £500 contribution towards your home office setup.

• Generous budget for learning and development.

• Private Medical Insurance.

• A wide range of additional perks and benefits (varying by location).