Key skills
Collaboration
About this role
Role Overview
- Shape how Polar approaches risk at scale: Build the foundations for how we assess, manage, and evolve risk as we grow.
- Assess and manage risk across the platform: From onboarding (KYB/KYC) to ongoing merchant monitoring and transaction-level analysis.
- Understand and mitigate payments risk: Analyze patterns across transactions, chargebacks, and disputes, and working with partners to prevent and resolve issues.
- Improve internal tooling and operations: Develop scalable workflows, systems and controls in close collaboration with product and engineering. Combined with building out dashboards & data analysis on your own to continuously improve how we track and optimize our risk efforts.
Requirements
- 3-6+ years of experience in risk, payments, compliance, or fraud-related roles, ideally in fintech, or similar environments.
- Hands on experience with
- KYC/KYB and merchant onboarding
- Transaction monitoring and fraud detection
- Chargebacks and dispute handling
- Familiarity with payments infrastructure
- including how transactions flow, where risk is introduced, and how PSPs and partners operate.
- Experience working with or alongside payment service providers, financial platforms, or merchant-facing products.
Benefits
- Meaningful ownership: Small team & large surface area. You’ll directly influence how the company and platform scale.
- Product-driven culture: We build to empower the next generation of software companies
- and operate with the same builder mindset internally.
- Competitive compensation: Salary and equity aligned with the impact of the role.
- Exceptional team: Work with highly talented team members distributed across Europe.
- Remote-first environment: Work from anywhere in Europe, with a home office setup budget available.
- Annual team offsites: As the team is spread across Europe, we gather in person at least once a year to collaborate, plan, and spend time.
- Health Benefits: Comprehensive health coverage to support you and your family.
- Parental leave: Paid parental leave aligned with the standards and regulations of your local jurisdiction.