Polymarket

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

This listing is sourced directly from Polymarket's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.