Company | Polar
Small team, big ambitions
Join our quest to build new financial primitives
Mission
billing = fn(events)
Usage in, revenue out
Modern software is priced around usage, yet billing systems remain static. We believe analytics and billing belong in the same platform, and we're building Polar to become the standard stack for the next generation of software.
Real-time event ingestion powers instant unit economics and analytics, leading to deterministic and versioned billing as code.
How we work
Fewer people, more ownership
Five principles keep us fast
Our mission is to build the finance layer for the next generation of AI products. We get there with a small set of principles that keep us fast and focused.
- 01
Own the outcome
Take problems end to end with high ownership and autonomy.
- 02
Build in the open
Polar is open source. We build in public, with our community.
- 03
Obsess over developers
Great developer experience is the product.
- 04
Keep the team small
Fewer people with more ownership. Wear multiple hats.
- 05
Design by subtraction
Say no often. Clarity comes from what's removed.
Design
Design taken as seriously as uptime
From API ergonomics to checkout
Design at Polar spans the entire stack. Great developer ergonomics, docs that respect your time, dashboards that make usage billing legible and checkouts your customers trust.
Join us
Open roles
Remote, senior, high ownership
We're a small, senior team working remotely across the world. High ownership, high pace and a direct line to the people using what you build.
Product & Engineering
[Senior Platform Engineer
5-8+ Years Experience·Remote, Europe](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/polar/8a82633e-e7b9-42f4-92e1-33032a56097a)
[Senior Product Engineer
7+ Years Experience·Remote, Europe](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/polar/955c6935-6d03-46e5-b649-a8b958a52962)
Merchant Operations
[Risk & Compliance Specialist
2+ Years Experience·Remote, United States](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/polar/87773c6c-4cd4-4948-9779-20fdc8f8ea7b)
[Merchant Support Specialist
2+ Years Experience·Remote, United States](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/polar/2f3744b5-f33b-4611-bdfa-d99700dfa0e7)
Backers
Investors, angels & advisors
Behind us since day one
The incredible people and early stage firms who have had our back through thick and thin, supporting us from day one.
- Accel - Venture Capital Firm
- Abstract - Venture Capital Firm
- Mischief - Venture Capital Firm
- Guillermo Rauch - Vercel
- Paul Copplestone - Supabase
- Tobi Lütke - Shopify
- Anton Osika - Lovable
- Michael Grinich - WorkOS
- Thomas Paul Mann - Raycast
- Jorn van Dijk & Koen Bok - Framer
- Harley Finkelstein - Shopify
- Jared Palmer - Cognition
- Zeno Rocha - Resend
- Steven Tey - Dub
- Sébastien & Alexandre Chopin - Nuxt
- Gustaf Alstromer - Y Combinator
- Mitchell Hashimoto - Ghostty
- David Cramer - Sentry
- Carl Rivera - Shopify
- Kaj Drobin - Stilla
- Siavash Ghorbani - Stilla
- Fredrik Björk - Grafbase
- Joel Hellermark - Sana
- Andrea Wang - SV Angel
- Kieran Flanagan - HubSpot
- Sri Batchu - The RealReal
- Tristan Handy - dbt Labs
- Mattias Miksche -