Tech Lead, Payments
Polygon Labs
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- 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
- 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
Requirements
- 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
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
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Hard Skills & Tools
Goevent-driven architecturesmicroservicesconcurrencymemory managementperformance optimizationpayment railsblockchaincloud-native infrastructurecontainerized deployments
Soft Skills
collaborationtechnical design reviewsownershipproblem-solvingcross-functional teamwork