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