Polygon Labs · 1 month ago
Tech Lead, Payments
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
8+ years expPolygon Labs is a global blockchain payments company focused on building infrastructure for instant and reliable money transfer. As Tech Lead for Payments, you will architect and build a modern payments platform while guiding engineering standards and collaborating across teams.
Crypto & Web3Information TechnologyBlockchainEthereumInfrastructureWeb3
Responsibilities
Architect and implement high-throughput, low-latency payment services in Go across fiat and blockchain-based flows
Design greenfield distributed systems, including ledgering, settlement orchestration, reconciliation, and partner integration layers
Build event-driven microservices using modern messaging systems and cloud-native patterns
Define service boundaries, data models, and integration contracts across synchronous and asynchronous systems
Establish engineering standards for reliability, observability, security, and performance across the Payments stack
Lead technical design reviews and support other engineers through complex architectural decisions without formal people management responsibilities
Set the standard for AI-assisted engineering on the Payments team, using coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) as a core part of your development loop, and shaping how other engineers adopt them for design, review, refactoring, and debugging
Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Compliance, and Infrastructure teams to deliver secure, enterprise-grade payment capabilities
Contribute directly to production code daily and take ownership of system performance in live environments
Qualification
Required
8+ years of backend engineering experience, including building high-availability, mission-critical financial or payment systems
Strong production experience in Go, with deep understanding of concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization
Proven experience designing distributed, event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka or similar messaging systems) and microservices-based systems
Experience integrating with payment rails (e.g., ACH, SEPA, card networks) and/or blockchain-based payment flows (wallets, custody, stablecoins)
Strong understanding of cloud-native infrastructure (AWS and/or GCP), networking fundamentals, and containerized deployments (GCP preferred)
Experience building systems in regulated environments with security, auditability, and compliance considerations built into system design
Daily, hands-on use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or equivalent) in your engineering work, with concrete examples of how AI has changed how you architect, ship, review, or debug systems at scale
High learning velocity, you pick up new languages, frameworks, and tools quickly, and you have a point of view on how AI-native engineering practices should evolve on a team you lead
Preferred
Experience building greenfield financial platforms or working in high-growth fintech environments
Familiarity with Ethereum or other smart contract platforms
Experience designing internal ledgering systems or real-time reconciliation engines
Strong opinions on developer productivity, automation, and engineering excellence
Experience building agentic workflows, MCP servers, or internal AI tooling that compounds team velocity
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
In certain countries medical, dental and vision is fully covered for employees and their dependents. This is country and plan specific.
401k is for United States employees only
Company
Polygon Labs
Polygon Labs is a global blockchain payments company building and operating infrastructure to move money instantly, reliably, and at internet scale, with the mission to move all money onchain.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
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Engineering and Development
Trends of Total Sponsorships
*2025 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$451.45MKey Investors
Disney AcceleratorPeak XV PartnersMark Cuban
2023-06-05Series Unknown
2022-07-13Non Equity Assistance
2022-02-07Initial Coin Offering· $450M
Leadership Team
Sandeep Nailwal
Co-Founder & CEO
Brendan Farmer
Co-Founder
Recent News
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2026-07-11
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