Senior Engineering Manager, Payments
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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.
- Experience working in fintech, neobanks, or real-time transaction processing environments.
- Experience with stablecoins, CBDCs, or tokenized assets.
- Hands-on exposure to Ethereum or other smart contract platforms.
- Experience working with global regulators or participating in payment certification processes.
- Deep knowledge of cloud-native, event-driven, and distributed system architectures.
- Passion for automation, developer productivity, and engineering excellence.
Responsibilities
- Do you want to build the future of payments from the ground up? As a Senior Engineering Manager – Payments, you will lead the team responsible for realizing Polygon Labs’ vision of On-Chain Money and the Open Money Stack. You will be at the forefront of transforming Polygon Labs into a true payments platform - designing, architecting, and delivering a modern payment system that brings fiat and digital assets together in powerful, enterprise-ready ways.
- This is a rare opportunity to build a greenfield payments platform at the intersection of fintech and blockchain - unconstrained by legacy architecture, empowered by automation, and surrounded by a collaborative, fast-moving, and remote-first team.
- 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.
Benefits
- The goal of the Polygon Labs total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan includes the following benefits for our full-time employees:
- 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)
- $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 & their dependents. This is country and plan specific.
- 401k is for United States employees only
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