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
📍Work closely with developers to help them understand and build on Polygon. 📍Develop technical documentation, code samples, and other resources to make it easy for developers to get started building on Polygon. 📍Act as a liaison between the developer community and other teams within Polygon. 📍Work with the product team to prioritize developer feedback and feature requests. 📍Continuously measure and report on the success of Polygon's Developer Relations efforts. 📍Review and execute a strong North America strategy for Polygon Labs’ Developer Relations initiatives & help expand Polygon Labs’ presence 📍Collaborate with North American developer communities to expand their reach and effectiveness 📍Build partnerships with technology companies, Web3 protocols and other related entities to maximize the value Polygon Labs delivers to developers and the wider Web3 community. 📍Represent Polygon Labs at both in-person and virtual events and hackathons.
A Day in the Life
📍A Developer Relations Engineering can perform any of the following duties on a given day: 📍Building reference implementations in Javascript, GoLang, Solidity or 📍Rust to support any of our chains. 📍Making memes and other forms of engaging social media content on current narratives surrounding Polygon. 📍Writing X/Twitter threads, blog posts, and articles on emerging developer technologies, internal or external. 📍Speaking at events either IRL or virtually. 📍Organizing the entire lifecycle of a hackathon from crafting bounties with internal product teams; to judging cool hackathon projects; to unblocking developers who are looking to build in Web3.
