
Engineering Manager (Fully Remote) London, England
Job description
Primer is the world's first automation platform for payments. With Primer, merchants and developers have all the underlying infrastructure and "lego blocks" they need to build the best buying experiences for their customers. Any developer can build a connection on Primer; merchants then simply 'click and connect' to the services they need to build their desired payment flows within their Primer dashboard.
Since starting in January 2020, we've raised funding from top tier investors including Accel, Balderton and Iconiq. Our all-star team from across the world of payments and fintech includes ex Braintree-PayPal, Stripe, Checkout, Tink, Recurly, TrueLayer, Paddle, Plaid, Kount and more - come and join us!
What is the role?
- Leading a team of engineers and technical leaders, cultivating an environment of continuous learning and collaboration
- Optimising engineering processes and resourcing across the teams to optimise delivery
- Collaborating with engineering leadership in setting team strategy and priorities
- Reviewing technical architecture proposals and ensuring considerations have been made on cost, scalability, performance, resilience, testability, observability and maintainability
- Improving knowledge sharing and collaboration, within and between teams, to remove roadblocks and keep teams performing well
- Taking responsibility for planning, execution and success of complex projects
- Driving a culture of cross-team learning, encouraging the team to present to the wider organisation on key learnings
What are we looking for?
- Experience in running multiple teams, growing technical leaders and scaling teams
- A track record of creating high performing autonomous engineering teams in high paced startup environments
- A start-up mentality, with experience building MVPs
- Experience managing distributed teams is highly desirable
- Passion about people, with the ability to inspire, coach and mentor to help people perform at their best
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 \uD83C\uDF0D
