Tech Lead, Payments

📋 Description

• • As the Tech Lead, Payments at Polygon Labs, you will be at the forefront of architecting and building a modern, scalable payments platform from the ground up, embodying the company's mission to move all money onchain.
• • This is a deeply technical, hands-on role where you will dedicate the majority of your time to writing production-grade Go code, designing critical core services, and making foundational architectural decisions that will power both fiat and blockchain-based payment flows at an immense scale.
• • You will be the primary technical driver behind the "Open Money Stack" and the "On-Chain Money" vision, shaping the future of global financial infrastructure.
• • This opportunity offers a "greenfield" development environment with the intensity and high ownership characteristic of a startup, allowing you to significantly influence and shape systems before they become solidified.
• • You will serve as the ultimate technical authority for the Payments domain, responsible for setting high engineering standards, meticulously reviewing technical designs, and providing expert guidance to other engineers navigating complex distributed systems challenges.
• • Despite your leadership in technical direction, you will remain deeply embedded in the codebase, actively contributing and maintaining a hands-on connection with the development process.
• • If you are passionate about building mission-critical financial infrastructure, possess a strong commitment to clean and robust system design, and are driven to help transition global payments onto the blockchain, this role is meticulously crafted for you.
• • Your core responsibility will be to design and implement high-throughput, low-latency payment services using Go, encompassing both fiat and blockchain-based transaction flows.
• • You will be instrumental in designing new, distributed systems, including sophisticated ledgering mechanisms, robust settlement orchestration, accurate reconciliation processes, and flexible partner integration layers.
• • A key aspect of your role will involve building event-driven microservices, leveraging modern messaging systems and adhering to cloud-native architectural patterns to ensure scalability and resilience.
• • You will be responsible for clearly defining service boundaries, establishing precise data models, and creating seamless integration contracts that govern interactions between synchronous and asynchronous systems.
• • A critical part of your mandate is to establish and enforce rigorous engineering standards across the entire Payments stack, focusing on paramount areas such as reliability, comprehensive observability, stringent security, and optimal performance.
• • You will lead technical design reviews, fostering a collaborative environment where innovative solutions are discussed and refined, and provide crucial support to other engineers as they tackle complex architectural decisions.
• • Cross-functional collaboration will be essential, working closely with Product, Compliance, and Infrastructure teams to ensure the successful delivery of secure, enterprise-grade payment capabilities that meet stringent regulatory and business requirements.
• • You will directly contribute to the production codebase on a daily basis, taking full ownership of system performance and stability in live, operational environments.
• • This role demands a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating potential risks, ensuring the integrity and security of financial transactions.
• • You will play a pivotal role in defining the technical roadmap for the Payments domain, aligning it with the broader company strategy and vision.
• • The opportunity to innovate and implement cutting-edge solutions in the rapidly evolving fintech and blockchain space is a central theme of this position.
• • You will be a key player in ensuring that Polygon Labs' payment infrastructure is not only functional but also a market leader in terms of efficiency, security, and user experience.
• • Your work will directly impact the company's ability to facilitate trillions of dollars in onchain value transfer and support millions of daily transactions for global clients.
• • This position offers unparalleled growth potential within a dynamic and forward-thinking organization at the forefront of blockchain innovation.