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Polymarket

Senior Backend Engineer, Trading & Connectivity

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about 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.

Tech Stack

Amazon DynamoDBApache KafkaAWSGoogle Cloud PlatformgRPCRedis

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