Software Engineer II, Frontend - Growth

Department: Engineering

Location: South Africa, Hungary, Poland, Romania

Employment Type: FullTime

An Introduction to Primer

Primer is the unified infrastructure for global payments. We give finance and payments teams the visibility and control to reduce complexity, improve performance, and capture more revenue - all from a single platform.

Backed by Sofina, Peak XV Partners, ICONIQ, Tencent, Accel, and Balderton, were building the payments layer the worlds best companies rely on.

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Which team will you be joining?

Youll be joining the Growth team, which owns merchant onboarding and activation: everything between a new account and a first live payment. Its a newly formed team taking on a new product area for Primer, so theres a lot of scope to shape both what we build and how.

Primer is remote-first and globally distributed — always will be.

What will you be doing?

• Ship frontend features for the self-serve onboarding and platform experience, with support from more senior engineers on scoping and architecture

• Work in React building the dashboard experience merchants use to onboard with Primer

• Learn from a hands-on senior frontend engineer whos setting the teams conventions and standards as you go

• Deploy your own features to production and track their impact once theyre live

• Get real exposure to how a merchants first experience with Primer is designed and built, working closely with Design

• Contribute to the Python backend where useful — no prior backend experience required, just a willingness to get stuck in when needed

What were looking for

• Experience shipping production frontend features, with growing autonomy and less need for hand-holding on the basics

• Comfortable writing tests and thinking through edge cases and error handling, even if you still lean on others for the trickier ones

• Genuine interest in the onboarding/activation space — the details of a merchants first experience matter here

• Willingness to contribute to backend Python code if required

Nice to have, not required:

• Previous React experience

• Experience building or integrating payment products

What you should be aware of:

• Early-stage team means some ambiguity on process and tooling that a more established team would already have solved

• Remote-first, high autonomy, no hand-holding — expect to figure things out rather than follow an existing playbook

✅ A typical interview process

• An initial intro call with a Talent Partner

• An interview with the Hiring Manager

• Challenge Stage - Contextualised to the role

• A final, values-alignment interview

Whats the culture like at Primer?

Were building a culture where people can do their best work and be proud of the impact they have. Youll be working with people who are mission-driven, smart, and reflective, and who are genuinely invested in building exceptional products and delivering success for our merchants.

We work remotely, and have done since day one. We believe that building a successful, profitable company goes beyond proximity. We invest in our relationships through great remote working practices and thoughtfully designed face-to-face time, including workations, our annual company retreat, and access to co-working spaces across most major cities.

The work is challenging. Scaleups are a challenge, and building category-defining products is a challenge. But theres a meaningful difference between a challenge and a struggle. At Primer, the right challenge comes with the right support: strong onboarding, a collaborative environment, and a team that is genuinely invested in your success. Its never something you face alone.

Our benefits

🌍 We are fully remote and globally distributed; and have been since day one
💰 Competitive share options
🌴 Uncapped holiday, with 25 days minimum to be taken
🗣️ Co-working space access across major cities
📅 Workations & Company Retreat
💻 The best equipment for your role
🏠 £500 towards your home office setup
🔎 Generous learning budget
🏥 Private Medical Insurance
📈 A broad set of additional perks and benefits (depending on location)

Don’t meet every single requirement?

At Primer, were dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If youre excited about this role but your experience doesnt align perfectly with every qualification listed, we encourage you to apply. You may be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Primer is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and adopts a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination, regardless of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, or any other background or belief.