Polymarket
Staff Backend Engineer
$250K–$400K
New York +1 · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Location
- New York
Remote - Experience
- 7+ years of professional backend engineering experience.
About the job
Own and shape critical backend systems that power Polymarket’s trading, consumer, and market-protection products, from architecture through production operation.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate backend systems and APIs; set technical direction and influence architecture across teams.
- Improve performance, correctness, and reliability; lead incident response and prevent recurring issues.
- Turn ambiguous problems into shipped solutions, partnering with stakeholders and mentoring engineers.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of professional backend engineering experience; strong proficiency in Go, Python, or Java (Go preferred).
- Deep knowledge of distributed systems, concurrency, data structures, and algorithms.
- Track record designing, shipping, and operating high-scale distributed systems in production.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, independent execution, and sound engineering tradeoff judgment.
Nice to have
- Experience in trading or exchange systems, large-scale consumer platforms, risk/fraud/compliance, or derivatives and risk engines; or in latency-critical/financial domains.
- Production experience with Kafka or Pulsar, gRPC/Connect or Protobuf, AWS or GCP, containers, and modern deployment tooling.
Pay
$250,000 to $400,000 annually (base salary)
Tools
Go, Python, Java, Kafka, Pulsar, gRPC/Connect, Protobuf, AWS, GCP
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