Staff Software Engineer Mission Control
Polymarket is a decentralized information markets platform that lets users bet on the outcome of real-world events.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
Funding history
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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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will own and lead Mission Control, defining its technical vision, roadmap, architecture, core abstractions, data models, and extension points. You will design scalable market-automation systems; lead technical and design reviews; balance reliability, security, compliance, and speed; and align interfaces, shared services, and standards across functions. You will turn strategic goals into technical priorities, mentor engineers, establish quality standards, and contribute to hiring and team growth.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software development experience, including significant experience as a technical lead or architect on production systems
- Deep expertise designing, building, and scaling full-stack web applications and platforms
- Expert-level TypeScript, JavaScript ES6+, and CSS skills
- Extensive React and Node.js experience
- Experience setting technical direction and delivering large cross-team initiatives
- Exceptional system design skills
- Ability to influence and drive alignment among engineering, product, and business leaders
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and shaping engineering culture, standards, and hiring
- Customer empathy
- Judgment under ambiguity
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Passion for blockchain, decentralized finance, and freedom of speech
Responsibilities
- Own and lead Mission Control
- Set the technical vision and roadmap for Mission Control
- Design core abstractions, data models, and extension points for the platform
- Architect systems for researching, structuring, deploying, and managing markets
- Lead architecture and design reviews
- Make technical tradeoffs across reliability, security, compliance, and speed
- Align interfaces, shared services, and standards across teams
- Partner with business and operational leaders to turn strategic goals into technical priorities
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers
- Set engineering culture and quality standards
- Help shape hiring and team growth
Benefits
- Equity
- Unlimited PTO
- Full health coverage
- Vision coverage
- Dental coverage
- 401(k) match
- New MacBook Pro
- Display and accessories
