About The Company

Polygon is the leading blockchain development platform, offering scalable, affordable, secure and sustainable blockchains for Web3. Its growing suite of products offers developers easy access to major scaling solutions including L2 (ZK Rollups and Optimistic Rollups), sidechains, hybrid, stand-alone and enterprise chains, and data availability. Polygon’s scaling solutions have seen widespread adoption with tens of thousands of decentralized applications hosted, 1.6B+ total transactions processed, 180M+ unique user addresses, and $7B+ in assets secured. Polygon is carbon neutral with the goal of leading the Web3 ecosystem in becoming carbon negative.

Job Short Description

KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Contribute to designing, implementing and launching new versions of blockchain nodes and maintaining them
- Implement new features and deploy them on an ongoing basis
- Design and build blockchain components, consensus, tools for the Polygon ecosystem
- Collaborate with external teams and developers


WHAT YOU'LL NEED
- 3+ years of experience working with backend systems in Go
- Good understanding of distributed systems and network protocols
- Experience with Ethereum, Bitcoin, or other blockchains is a plus
- Understanding and being able to reason about different scalability approaches, such as rollups and sidechains, knowledge of ZK rollups is a big plus.
- Experience of writing smart-contracts (using Solidity or Vyper) is a plus