
Senior Backend Engineer, Trading & Connectivity
Polymarketabout 4 hours ago
New York, NY, USASenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Design and scale distributed, event-driven systems that process hundreds of millions of events per day.
- Profile and optimize order routing and market data distribution to improve latency and throughput.
- Run production on-call and lead reliability initiatives across the team.
- Partner on order routing and protocol-level integrations with market participants.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to hiring while maintaining hands-on delivery.
- Collaborate with Core Exchange, Markets, and Infra teams to integrate connectivity systems.
Requirements
- 8+ years of backend engineering experience with high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
- Deep expertise in event-driven architectures and streaming/messaging platforms at scale.
- Strong operational ownership with experience in production on-call and reliability initiatives.
- Comfortable with market connectivity concerns like order routing and rate limiting.
- Demonstrated technical leadership through mentoring or leading a small team.
- Experience in trading systems or high-throughput domains is a plus.
- Familiarity with gRPC, Protobuf, and cloud deployment in AWS/GCP is a plus.
Benefits
- Competitive salary & equity.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage.
- 401k match.
- Hardware setup including a new MacBook Pro and accessories.