Senior Engineering Manager, Payments
Polygon Labs
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Lead the buildout of a modern payments application from the ground up, working closely with the Head of Payments Engineering.
- Manage and mentor engineers and DevOps teams focused on delivering scalable and reliable payment capabilities.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Compliance, and Infrastructure teams to define and deliver enterprise-grade payment solutions.
- Drive architecture and development across both fiat and blockchain-based payment systems.
- Instill a strong engineering culture focused on automation, ownership, security, and operational excellence.
- Stay ahead of the curve on blockchain innovation in the payments space and integrate emerging standards into the product roadmap.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in payments engineering, ideally spanning both traditional finance and digital assets.
- Proven experience managing senior engineering teams and building high-throughput, low-latency, mission-critical transaction systems.
- Deep expertise in designing microservices-based architectures, including service mesh and event-driven systems (e.g. Kafka, Axon, cloud-native pub/sub).
- Proficient in one or more backend languages (Java, Go, Python) and frameworks like Spring Boot, with strong understanding of active thread management for synchronous flows.
- Experience with both synchronous and asynchronous integration patterns (REST, gRPC, pub-sub) for enterprise-scale partner integrations.
- Strong architectural understanding of cloud-native systems on AWS and/or GCP, including edge networking (e.g. CDN, API gateways) through to internal subnet topology.
- Hands-on experience with database and caching technologies including PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, and Hazelcast.
- Solid understanding of data architecture patterns, including data lakes, data warehouses (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks) and event-based ingestion pipelines.
- Strong understanding of both centralized and decentralized payment infrastructure, including traditional rails (ACH, SEPA, card networks) and blockchain-based flows (wallets, custody, stablecoins).
- Track record of delivering compliant, secure systems in regulated environments, with an understanding of KYC, AML, and other key controls.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to align and influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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 Annual Book Allowance Program
- $75 Monthly internet or phone reimbursement
- Flexible Time Off
- Company issued laptop
- Egg freezing, mental health, and employee wellness benefits**
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Hard Skills & Tools
payments engineeringmicroservices architectureJavaGoPythonSpring BootAWSGCPPostgreSQLKafka
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationmentoringcollaborationinfluenceengineering cultureoperational excellenceautomationownershipsecurity