Senior Product Engineer

Why Polar?

It's never been easier to build, ship and scale software.

But it's never been harder to monetize it.

We're obsessed over solving this to empower the future one-developer unicorns.

These unicorns will be rare but inevitable. Whether in 3, 5, or 10+ years, they also symbolize a broader shift already in motion and accelerating:

• Smaller & smaller teams with...

• Exponential revenue/employee growth

• Focusing fully on their core product and marketing. Delegating & automating everything else that's boilerplate – be it in their codebase or business operations.

Exceptional billing primitives, APIs, SDKs and abstractions are a crucial foundation, but not enough. They will need a full-fledged platform to oversee, manage and scale their business.

Turning their software into an international business in 6 lines of code.

Join our small, talented and engineering-led team across Europe to shape how future software businesses are built. We focus on shipping at high velocity to serve developers in unlocking their next stage with their business. Everything else is secondary.

Product Engineering at Polar

Fullstack engineerings with a strong product sense and taste. As we grow, we'll gradually move towards more specialized roles between backend vs. frontend vs. product engineering. Therefore, we ask about your main strength in the application to ensure we maintain a strong & balanced team across the spectrum.

Our Stack

• Frontend: React & Next.js with Tailwind CSS, Shadcn, TanStack Router and more.

• Backend: Python (FastAPI), Postgres, Redis, Dramatiq,

• Cloud: Vercel, Render & AWS

Always subject to change as we scale and new technologies emerge.

Role & responsibilities

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 very 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.

• 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.

• Continuously improve the quality of services and the overall developer experience.

• Engage frequently with our developer community to identify pain points and solve them

What we're looking for

• 7+ years of experience building, shipping and scaling high-quality software.

• You ship fast and can solve any problem thrown at you end-to-end

• 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.

• Excellent collaboration skills - comfortable working closely with a small, high-performing team. It's a startup so we all 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) You're an ex-founder/startup CTO, open source maintainer or indie hacker

• (Bonus) Experience working with payments, billing, or developer tools

How we hire

Our process is fully remote, and all communication happens via email, GitHub issues/PRs and/or video calls:

1. Application Review → Short intro call with Birk (Founder)

2. Assignment → Open source PR (Engineering) or case study

3. Review & interviews (2-3 video calls) to:

   • Meet future team

   • Review and discuss the assignment & feedback + technical questions

   • Meet Birk (Founder)

4. Reference Calls

5. Offer 🎉