Polar is hiring

Senior Payments Engineer

📋 Description

  • Strengthen payments & billing architecture: design subscription logic, invoicing, transaction flows, refunds, disputes and payouts with robust state management.
  • Build merchant-facing payment experiences: dashboards, onboarding flows, billing configuration and APIs.
  • Improve reliability & observability: monitoring, testing and rollback mechanisms for financial flows.
  • Collaborate across product & compliance: work with product, support and legal to translate regulatory requirements into enforcement systems.
  • Evolve PSP & infrastructure integrations: refine integrations with PSPs and financial partners for multi-region support.

🎯 Requirements

  • Deep systems thinking; anticipate failure modes, idempotency and state modeling in money movement.
  • Security- and compliance-aware engineering mindset; auditability and constraint enforcement.
  • Strong product judgement; balance speed with correctness and long-term integrity.
  • Strong merchant empathy; merchant-facing experiences with usability and performance.
  • High ownership and collaboration; comfortable in small, high-ownership teams.
  • Backend expertise; durable APIs, SQL and data modeling.

🎁 Benefits

  • Meaningful ownership; small team, big impact.
  • Product-driven culture; builder mindset.
  • Competitive compensation; salary and equity.
  • Exceptional team across Europe.
  • Remote-first; work from anywhere in Europe with a home office budget.
  • Annual team offsites across Europe.