Polar
Platform Engineering
U.S. / Europe · Remote · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
About the job
Build and operate the infrastructure, backend systems, and platform tooling that keep Polar’s payments and billing product reliable, scalable, and financially correct.
What you'll do
- Improve system availability, performance, resilience, observability, deployments, and incident response.
- Evolve cloud architecture, infrastructure-as-code, and production environments.
- Build platform primitives and automation, and ensure financial systems support auditability, access control, and data integrity.
What they ask for
- Experience building and operating backend and systems, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and production systems at scale.
- Strong experience with relational databases, data modelling, query optimization, and data integrity and performance.
- Ability to make pragmatic technical trade-offs and work across infrastructure, backend, and application layers.
- Ownership of outcomes, with product judgement and attention to security, access control, and auditability.
Nice to have
- Experience with payments, billing, or financial infrastructure.
- Open-source contributions or side projects.
Tools
Typescript, React, Effect, Python, FastAPI, Dramatiq, Postgres, Clickhouse
AI focus
The platform supports usage-based software, programmable pricing, and AI agents; the posting does not specify AI development as a job duty.
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