Senior Backend Engineer, Product Infrastructure
About this role
About Polymarket
Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market platform. We enable individuals to express views on real-world events by trading on outcomes across politics, economics, sports, culture, and current affairs. Built as a peer-to-peer marketplace with no centralized “house,” Polymarket aggregates diverse opinions into transparent, market-based probabilities that reflect collective expectations about the future.
We’re growing fast: both in volume ($21B traded in 2025) and in adoption as an alternative news source. Our ambition is to become a ubiquitous beacon of truth in global media, powered by fast, reliable, and deeply technical market infrastructure.
About the role
Polymarket is looking for a backend/product engineer to own the core domain APIs and data models that power our consumer-facing product.
You’ll work at the intersection of backend infrastructure and product, shipping the primitives that frontend, mobile, and product teams build on top of — with high ownership and a strong bias toward execution.
What you’ll do
Design core domain APIs: Build and evolve the APIs and data models that underpin Polymarket’s consumer product at scale.
Build real-time infrastructure: Develop gRPC/Connect services and real-time streaming systems (e.g., WebSocket-to-gRPC-stream migrations) alongside event and notification infrastructure.
Ship end-user features: Partner directly with frontend, mobile, and product teams to deliver features like personalization, search, and live data feeds.
Unify fragmented systems: Consolidate fragmented services and APIs into cleaner, reusable primitives that speed up future feature development.
Balance debt and delivery: Pragmatically balance technical-debt cleanup with shipping new product surface area under tight deadlines.
Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with engineers across product, infra, and data to ensure tight integration with the broader platform.
What we’re looking for
Backend/product engineering experience designing and evolving domain APIs and data models for a consumer-facing product at scale.
Hands-on experience with gRPC/Connect and real-time streaming (e.g., WebSocket-to-gRPC-stream migrations) and event/notification infrastructure.
Track record partnering directly with frontend, mobile, and product teams to ship end-user features.
Experience unifying fragmented services and APIs into cleaner, reusable primitives.
Pragmatic judgment for balancing technical-debt cleanup with shipping new product surface area under P0 deadlines.
(Plus) Experience at a high-growth consumer product company or marketplace.
(Plus) Experience deploying systems in cloud environments (AWS/GCP) and using containers.
Benefits
Competitive salary & equity
Unlimited PTO
Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage
401k match
Hardware setup — new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories
Company at a glance
The world’s leading prediction market platform, where users trade on the outcomes of real-world events. By putting real money behind opinions, Polymarket cuts through noise, bias, and speculation to surface a single powerful signal: what people actually believe will happen.
From elections and geopolitics to business, culture, and breaking news, Polymarket transforms headlines into live markets with constantly updating probabilities. The result is a real-time, crowd-driven forecast of the future — more dynamic and often more accurate than traditional polling or expert analysis.
Polymarket provides clarity. Not through commentary, but through markets.
Top Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Equity
- Unlimited PTO
- Full Health Coverage
- Vision Coverage
- Dental Coverage
- 401k Match
- Hardware Setup
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