Tech Lead, Payments

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🕒 March 11

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Polygon Labs

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11 - 50 employees

📱 Media

🥽 AR/VR

🏢 Enterprise

Media • AR/VR • Enterprise

Polygon Labs is a creative services and software solutions studio specializing in data and content visualization for the media industry. The company has been involved in various high-profile projects, such as Univision's Destino 2020 Elections AR Graphics, Cheddar TV's interactive US Elections storytelling, and automated weather graphics for RT America. As a part of disguise. one, they work on delivering engaging experiences and support for clients like CNN, Verizon Media, and Engadget. Their focus is on producing interactive and innovative media content.

📋 Description

• 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