Primer is solving the biggest problem in payments

The last two decades have seen an explosion in new payment services to support new ways to pay around the world - from digital wallets, mobile payments, and open banking, to Buy Now Pay Later and crypto. Great for consumers! But, incredibly complex for merchants and developers. That’s where Primer comes in.

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.

We're also creating an all-new open distribution channel for payment services to reach new merchants. 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.

We have an all-star global team from across the world of payments and fintech - ex Braintree-PayPal, Stripe, Checkout, Tink, Recurly, TrueLayer, Paddle, Plaid, Kount, and more.

Since starting in January 2020, we've raised from from top tier investors including Accel, Balderton, Seedcamp, Speedinvest, and RTP Global, to enable us to solve the biggest problem in payments.

The way we work is different at Primer

Primer is all about ‘Minimum Viable Bureaucracy’. We want to remove all the limitations for you to do your very best work. You can be based anywhere you like, with flexibility in how you work - what matters to us is what you do.

Trust is given by default. You’ll have unlimited time off, co-working access whenever you need it, team workations whenever you want to organise them, and visibility and transparency end to end across the company and our aims.

The Role

We are looking for a skilled data engineer to join our growing data team. As a Data Engineer you will be responsible for designing, building and optimising our data and data pipeline architecture, as well as improving data flow across the organisation. The ideal candidate will have a wealth of knowledge building data pipelines, data wrangling and enjoy building systems from the ground up.

At Primer the product is everything, and data will be no different. It will be used to enhance Primer's offering, so it is vital to have a product focused mindset. The data team will be in constant communication with the domain experts from across the organisation in order to drive the product forward.

What you'll be doing

• Helping to build and provision a complete data infrastructure
• Creating and maintaining a hugely scalable data pipeline
• Building ETL infrastructure for data across a wide range of data sources
• Building analytical tools that utilise the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into operational performance, merchant efficiency and other key performance indicators
• Keeping data separated and secure across national boundaries

• Proven experience gained from a similar position
• Experience building and optimising ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures and data sets
• Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores.
• Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
• Relevant experience with one or more of the following would be advantageous:
  • Experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc
  • Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Dynamodb
  • Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.
  • Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift
  • Experience with stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc.
  • Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java etc.

• 100% remote working - work from anywhere you like, however you like
• Share options
• Unlimited holiday
• Co-working space access
• Team socials - quarterly workations, annual company events, virtual events
• Laptop, screens, everything you need!
• £500 towards your home office
• Unlimited learning budget
• Medical insurance via SafetyWings
• Location specific benefits - pension, 401k, US health insurance, etc