Senior Backend Engineer Trading and Connectivity
Polymarket is a decentralized information markets platform that lets users bet on the outcome of real-world events.
Maintainer signals as of 8/12/2026
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About Polymarket
Polymarket is an information markets platform where users can trade on the outcomes of various events, leveraging the power of free markets to forecast the future. It provides a mechanism for users to bet on real-world events and earn money based on the outcomes.
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About the Role
You will own systems connecting an exchange to external market participants and downstream systems. You will design and scale event-driven connectivity infrastructure with Kafka, gRPC, DynamoDB, and Redis; optimize order routing and market-data distribution; run production on-call; improve reliability, logging, deployment, and incident response; partner on rate limiting and protocol integrations; mentor engineers; contribute to hiring; and help set technical direction while delivering hands-on.
Requirements
- 8+ years of backend engineering experience
- Experience architecting high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems
- Expertise with event-driven architectures and Kafka, gRPC, DynamoDB, or Redis
- Experience running production on-call and driving reliability, logging, and deployment standardization
- Experience with order routing, rate limiting, protocol integrations, or equivalent mission-critical infrastructure
- Technical leadership through mentoring, hiring, or leading a small team
- Experience in trading systems, HFT, or latency-sensitive high-throughput domains is a plus
- Familiarity with Protobuf and cloud environments such as AWS or GCP is a plus
Responsibilities
- Design and scale distributed event-driven connectivity systems
- Process high volumes of events with Kafka, gRPC, DynamoDB, and Redis
- Optimize order routing and market-data distribution latency and throughput
- Run production on-call
- Lead reliability initiatives and standardize logging, deployment, and incident response
- Partner on order routing, rate limiting, and protocol integrations
- Mentor engineers and contribute to hiring
- Set technical direction while delivering hands-on
- Collaborate with exchange, markets, and infrastructure teams
Benefits
- Equity
- Unlimited PTO
- Full health coverage
- Full vision coverage
- Full dental coverage
- 401k match
- New MacBook Pro
- Big display
- Accessories