Director of Engineering

Primer

Director of Engineering leading multi-team Orchestration organization at Primer, a payments infrastructure startup. Focused on performance, culture, and delivering scalable services.

Posted 6/1/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

DynamoDBKafka

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Be accountable for the org's overall performance, culture, and output
Own the technical roadmap for Orchestration in partnership with Product
Partner with the CTO to shape how the Orchestration domain evolves as Primer scales
Holding and raising the bar on security, reliability and latency
Develop the engineering leaders within Orchestration

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience leading multiple engineering teams through significant growth or technical transformation
A track record of managing and developing engineering managers
Experience running multi-team domains
Experience running multi-tenant, high-scale, low-latency, high-reliability systems
Demonstrated ability to deliver large-scale architectural evolutions while keeping a production system running
Comfortable operating at both strategic and tactical altitude
Ability to work productively and collaboratively with other functions - Product, GTM, Finance etc
Ability to communicate effectively with executive stakeholders
Nice to have:
Experience with payments
Experience owning merchant-facing APIs and SDKs that span backend, frontend, and mobile domains
Familiarity with event-driven architectures (eg Kafka, SQS/SNS) and distributed databases (eg CockroachDB, DynamoDB)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive share options
Uncapped holiday, with 25 days minimum to be taken
Co-working space access
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)*

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Hard Skills & Tools

multi-tenant systemshigh-scale systemslow-latency systemshigh-reliability systemslarge-scale architectural evolutionsevent-driven architecturesAPIsSDKsdistributed databasespayments

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationcommunicationstrategic thinkingtactical thinkingaccountabilityperformance managementculture developmentstakeholder engagementteam development