Polymarket
Senior Web Engineer
New York · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 84 days ago
TypeScriptReactNext.jsExpressCode ReviewCommunication
About the role
- This is a high-ownership role at the intersection of frontend product development, backend systems, performance, and reliability.
- You should be comfortable shipping complicated React/Next.js features, debugging ambiguous production issues, and working across teams without needing hand-holding.
- We want someone who can move fast, make strong technical decisions, and help raise the quality bar for our frontend systems.
Responsibilities
- Own and ship complex features end-to-end. Build and launch web features across Polymarket's core product surfaces, making thoughtful tradeoffs between speed, quality, architecture, and long-term maintainability.
- Collaborate across the stack.
- Work closely with backend engineers to design APIs, reason through data flows, and build reliable user experiences on top of complex systems.
- Partner with QA, TPM, product, and design to clarify requirements, manage launches, and improve product quality.
- Own reliability and incident response for your domain.
- Improve frontend observability. Build and improve the logs, metrics, alerts, dashboards, and error reporting that give the team visibility into how our frontend systems are performing.
- Identify meaningful technical debt, propose pragmatic refactors, and contribute to system design discussions that evolve our frontend architecture as the product scales.
- Lead by example through strong code reviews, clear communication, and high-quality execution.
- Strong frontend system design instincts across state management, data fetching, caching, performance, reliability, and maintainability
- High agency: you notice problems, propose solutions, and drive work to completion
Requirements
- 3-5+ years of frontend web engineering experience
- Strong hands-on experience with React, Next.js, TypeScript, and modern frontend development
- Experience owning complex features from scoping through launch
- Strong debugging skills and experience responding to production issues
Nice to have
- Able to operate independently in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment
- Clear communicator during planning, launches, bugs, and incidents
- (Plus) Frontend performance specialization
- (Plus) Experience with high-traffic, real-time, marketplace, trading, or financial products
- (Plus) Experience in crypto, Web3, or adjacent financial infrastructure
- (Plus) Experience improving frontend observability, alerting, or reliability practices
- (Plus) Strong practical use of AI tools to improve engineering productivity
Compensation
- Competitive salary & equity
Benefits
- Competitive salary & equity
- Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage
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