About the company
Polygon Labs develops Ethereum scaling solutions for Polygon protocols. Polygon Labs engages with other ecosystem developers to help make available scalable, affordable, secure and sustainable blockchain infrastructure for Web3. Polygon Labs has initially developed a growing suite of protocols for developers to gain easy access to major scaling solutions, including layer 2s (zero-knowledge rollups and optimistic rollups), sidechains, hybrid chains, app-specific chains, enterprise chains, and data availability protocols. Scaling solutions that Polygon Labs initially developed have seen widespread adoption with tens of thousands of decentralized apps, unique addresses exceeding 225 million, over 1.2 million smart contracts created and 2.56 billion total transactions processed since inception. The existing Polygon network is home for some of the biggest Web3 projects, such as Aave, Uniswap, and OpenSea, and well-known enterprises, including Robinhood, Stripe and Adobe. Polygon Labs is carbon neutral with the goal of leading Web3 in becoming carbon negative.
Job Summary
Key Job Responsibilities
📍Collaborating with the DeFi team to identify promising, DeFi-native expansion for protocols within the Polygon ecosystem, like the recent Maker DAO Spark / sDAI proposal 📍Work with the Project Management team to identify and instantiate promising areas for development within the Polygon stack. 📍Interfacing with the Solution Provider team and external protocols to ensure that any engineering issues are quickly and communicatively aggregated & addressed.
A Day in the Life
📍In-person / virtual calls and messaging to conduct project support for DeFi projects on Polygon protocols. 📍Working cross-functionally with teams like Solution Providers, Product Management, and DeFi teams to maximize impact. 📍Traveling to conferences. 📍Creating DeFi product strategy across Polygon’s different blockchains: PoS, zkEVM, Miden, and CDK 📍Collaborating closely with the existing DeFi team