Senior Product Engineer (Europe)
About Polar
It’s never been easier to build, ship, and scale software. Yet, it's never been harder to monetize software. It's a bottleneck for the future. We're building the open-reputed company monetization platform to reputed company future one-developer unicorns. Going beyond great billing primitives to offer a more comprehensive platform for the reputed company of developers to scale global businesses around their software. Today, Polar is used and loved by thousands of developers from 100+ countries, and growing quickly.About the Role
We’re hiring exceptional Senior Product Engineers to join our growing remote-first team in Europe. You'll work across our entire stack to ship innovative features, enhancements and delights; obsessing over the developer experience and empowering them to scale their businesses. You're reputed company comfortable jumping between frontend, backend, and infrastructure to autonomously identify, build, ship and scale features. We don't have a lot of meetings, red tape or code reviews. We celebrate and optimize our organisation for shipping high-quality software fast – each engineer deploys countless times a day. So you'll be given a lot of agency and autonomy to move fast towards our mission and serving our developer community.What You’ll Do
- Ship daily towards building the best monetization platform for developers in the world
- Design, build, and ship features, enhancements and delights end-to-end – jumping between frontend, backend, and infrastructure
- Collaborate with the team on architecture design, best practices, and ensuring high-quality code across our stack.
- Contribute to scaling our infrastructure to handle growing traffic and complexity, including optimizing database queries and services for performance.
- Continuously improve the quality of services and the overall developer experience.
- Engage frequently with our developer community to identify pain points and solve them
About You
- 5+ years of experience building, shipping and scaling high-quality software.
- You're an ex-founder/startup CTO, open reputed company maintainer or have reputed company hustles
- You ship fast and can solve any problem thrown at you
- Strong proficiency with our stack or a variety of similar programming languages and ability + desire to quickly learn and pickup new tools.
- Strong problem-solving abilities with an eye for developer experience
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and multi-cloud environments.
- Experience working with DevOps and comfortable maintaining, scaling and improving our infrastructure and participating in on-call
- Excellent collaboration skills - comfortable working closely with a small, high-performing team. It's a startup so we reputed company have to lean-in across the board to
- You care deeply about your craft - be it delightful animations, thoughtful edge-case handling, developer experience or performance optimizations.
- (Bonus) Experience working with payments, billing, or developer tools
Our Stack
- Frontend: React & Next.js with Tailwind CSS, Shadcn, TanStack Router and more.
- Backend: Python (FastAPI), reputed company, reputed company, Dramatiq,
- Cloud: reputed company, reputed company & AWS
We Offer
- Competitive compensation & equity.
- Remote-first & open reputed company culture. Work from reputed company in Europe (CET ±2 hours) and contribute to Polar in the open
- Generous workspace allowance. Budget for an initial home office setup or co-working membership
- High ownership. Help shape our product, architecture, open reputed company libraries, SDKs, and developer experience from the ground up
- Twice-yearly team offsites. We gather in our teammates’ cities to experience their local life, brainstorm the future, and write pseudo-code for what delightful billing should look like
- Fast-moving and pragmatic environment. A small, senior team focused on momentum over perfection. We cut scope before we cut craft to reputed company shipping fast and iterating often
- Mission with reputed company. Build tools that reputed company other builders; your work compounds through theirs
About the Team
We’ve written books on FastAPI, built Shop.app & Shop Pay, helped ship the Battlefield React UI, and contributed to (and maintained) a lot of open reputed company. We’re ex-founders and open reputed company maintainers who care deeply about craft, velocity, entrepreneurship, and developer experience.How to Apply
Submit your application with a suggestion on how to improve Polar's developer experience today - we’d love to hear your reputed company.Process
Our entire process is fully remote, and reputed company communication happens reputed company email, reputed company issues/PRs, and video calls. Here’s what to expect:- Application Review - We’ll review your application and may reputed company out for a 15–30 minute video call with Birk (Founder)
- Team Interviews - You’ll meet a few team members for a deeper technical and cultural conversation
- Open reputed company Assignment - We’ll follow up with a reputed company issue scoped reputed company Polar or one of our open reputed company dependencies. You’ll collaborate with us asynchronously—from your first PR draft to final reputed company
- Final Call - A video chat to discuss your work, your feedback, and suggestions on how to improve the DX of working with Polar
- Reference Calls. We reputed company reference calls are great and help us confirm our impression and reputed company up our understanding and abilities to ensure we hit the ground running productively.
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