Tech Lead, Payments

Tech Lead, Payments at Polygon Labs will architect and build a modern payments platform from the ground up. This role requires 8+ years of backend engineering experience, strong production experience in Go, and a deep understanding of concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization.

Requirements

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience
• Strong production experience in Go
• Deep understanding of concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization
• Proven experience designing distributed, event-driven architectures
• Experience integrating with payment rails and/or blockchain-based payment flows
• Strong understanding of cloud-native infrastructure and networking fundamentals
• Experience building systems in regulated environments
• Preferred Qualifications: experience building greenfield financial platforms or working in high-growth fintech environments, familiarity with Ethereum or other smart contract platforms

Benefits

• Remote first global workforce
• Industry-leading Medical, Dental and Vision health insurance
• Company matching 401k with 3% match
• $1,500 Home Office Set Up Allowance (lifetime max)
• $200 AI Program Allowance
• $75 Monthly internet or phone reimbursement
• Flexible Time Off
• Company issued laptop
• Egg freezing, mental health, and employee wellness benefits