About the company
Polygon Labs develops Ethereum scaling solutions for Polygon protocols. Polygon Labs engages with other ecosystem developers to help make available scalable, affordable, secure and sustainable blockchain infrastructure for Web3. Polygon Labs has initially developed a growing suite of protocols for developers to gain easy access to major scaling solutions, including layer 2s (zero-knowledge rollups and optimistic rollups), sidechains, hybrid chains, app-specific chains, enterprise chains, and data availability protocols. Scaling solutions that Polygon Labs initially developed have seen widespread adoption with tens of thousands of decentralized apps, unique addresses exceeding 225 million, over 1.2 million smart contracts created and 2.56 billion total transactions processed since inception. The existing Polygon network is home for some of the biggest Web3 projects, such as Aave, Uniswap, and OpenSea, and well-known enterprises, including Robinhood, Stripe and Adobe. Polygon Labs is carbon neutral with the goal of leading Web3 in becoming carbon negative.
Job Summary
Your Responsibilities
šLead the buildout of a modern payments application from the ground up, working closely with the Head of Payments Engineering. šManage and mentor engineers and DevOps teams focused on delivering scalable and reliable payment capabilities. šCollaborate cross-functionally with Product, Compliance, and Infrastructure teams to define and deliver enterprise-grade payment solutions. šDrive architecture and development across both fiat and blockchain-based payment systems. šInstill a strong engineering culture focused on automation, ownership, security, and operational excellence. šStay ahead of the curve on blockchain innovation in the payments space and integrate emerging standards into the product roadmap.
What Youāll Need
š10+ years of experience in payments engineering, ideally spanning both traditional finance and digital assets. šProven experience managing senior engineering teams and building high-throughput, low-latency, mission-critical transaction systems. šDeep expertise in designing microservices-based architectures, including service mesh and event-driven systems (e.g. Kafka, Axon, cloud-native pub/sub).
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