Staff Software Engineer, Backend

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

📋 Description

• Establishing and implementing the technical strategy across the Partners engineering teams, from architectural decisions to hands-on execution.

• Taking ownership of the design for core backend services aimed at high-performance distributed systems, ensuring that scale and reliability are paramount.

• Serving as the technical authority on partner integrations — defining how third-party PSPs connect with Primer's platform and elevating the standard for what "seamless" truly means.

• Leading and influencing engineers across various teams without direct authority — through code contributions, design reviews, and providing technical mentorship.

• Identifying and addressing cross-team technical dependencies proactively before they evolve into obstacles.

• Promoting the adoption of contemporary engineering practices (BDD, TDD, thorough documentation) and maintaining high-quality standards.

• Collaborating closely with Product to inform roadmap decisions where technical constraints or opportunities are significant.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience operating at a staff or principal level — establishing technical direction across several teams, rather than within a single one.

• Extensive backend engineering knowledge, with a history of designing and developing distributed systems at scale.

• Possessing the kind of judgment that quickly builds trust — engineers follow your technical guidance because you are correct, not merely due to your title.

• Proficiency in Python is a significant advantage; we value depth of backend systems thinking over specific programming languages.

• Strong understanding of payments infrastructure or developer platform engineering — you know what it takes to develop for third-party integrators.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; you can articulate complex technical decisions clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive share options.

• Uncapped holiday entitlement, with a minimum of 25 days required to be taken.

• Access to co-working spaces.

• Opportunities for workations and company retreats.

• Provision of top-quality equipment for your role.

• £500 contribution towards your home office setup.

• A generous learning budget.

• Private Medical Insurance.

• A wide range of additional perks and benefits (*depending on location*).