Polymarket
Staff Software Engineer, Mission Control
$250K–$500K
New York · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years; includes significant time as a technical lead or architect on production systems.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent (plus).
About the job
Lead the technical strategy, architecture, and development of Mission Control, Polymarket’s internal platform for market operations, compliance, and company-wide workflows.
What you'll do
- Own Mission Control’s technical vision and roadmap; design its core platform abstractions and systems for market automation.
- Lead architecture decisions and cross-team alignment on reliability, security, compliance, and shared services.
- Partner with company teams and leaders, mentor engineers, and help shape engineering standards and team growth.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of professional software development experience, including significant time 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; extensive experience with React and Node.js.
- Track record setting technical direction and delivering large cross-team initiatives; strong system design, influence, mentoring, and communication skills.
Nice to have
- Next.js; internal platforms or tooling for compliance, AML, surveillance, risk, or trading operations.
- Regulated-industry, embedded/field engineering, workflow automation, deployment pipelines, or fintech/crypto/exchange experience; bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
Pay
$250,000 to $500,000 annually (USD, base salary)
Tools
TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), CSS, React, Node.js, Next.js
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