Polymarket

Forward Deployed Engineer, Institutional

New York

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 42 days ago

JavaScriptPythonExpressRESTWebSocketsSalesAccount Management

About the role

This is a technical client-facing role sitting at the intersection of our institutional relationships and our engineering team.
You're part account manager, part solutions engineer.
This role reports to the Head of Institutional Liquidity.

Own the technical onboarding experience for market makers and institutional clients integrating with Polymarket's APIs - REST, WebSocket, and order entry
Serve as the primary technical point of contact for key partners post-onboarding, triaging issues and coordinating with engineering on resolutions
Build and maintain integration guides, code samples, and documentation that help clients go live faster
Support the institutional sales team on technical due diligence - joining client calls, answering deep API and infrastructure questions, and helping close deals
Comfortable reading and writing code - Python, JavaScript, or similar - to build samples, debug integrations, or automate workflows

2-5 years in a technical client-facing role - forward deployed engineer, solutions engineering, technical account management, or similar at an exchange, fintech, or trading technology company
Hands-on experience with exchange or trading APIs (REST, WebSocket, FIX)
Collaborative by nature - you work closely with engineering, product, and sales without friction
Experience at a crypto exchange, DeFi protocol, or on-chain trading venue
Familiarity with prediction markets or event-driven financial products
Experience with market maker or HFT client integrations

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