Polymarket

Senior Backend Engineer, Markets Engineering

New York · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 43 days ago

PythonGoRustExpressDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentCode ReviewAWSGCPCloud PlatformsLinuxKafkaRabbitMQData EngineeringAI Orchestration

About the role

This role is focused on automation pipelines, data integrations, and the market lifecycle infrastructure that keeps thousands of markets accurate and up-to-date in real time.
This is a high-ownership role with minimal bureaucracy and a strong bias toward execution.

Build markets automation systems: Design and implement pipelines that automate market creation, parameter configuration, and lifecycle management across thousands of concurrent markets.
Engineer resolution infrastructure: Build reliable, data-driven resolution systems that integrate with external oracles, news feeds, sports APIs, and real-world data sources to settle markets accurately and on time.
Design event-driven automation: Build robust event processing systems that detect and respond to real-world triggers across politics, sports, finance, and current events using messaging and streaming platforms (Kafka, Pulsar, RabbitMQ).
Own reliability & operations: Reinforce correctness, availability, and scalability across markets systems, and participate in diagnosing and resolving production issues.
Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with engineers across product, infra, data, and markets operations to ensure tight integration between the markets layer and the broader platform.
Contribute to code quality: Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and architectural decisions to maintain a high bar for engineering excellence.
Experience building automation systems, workflow orchestration, or integrations with third-party data sources and APIs.
Design and implement pipelines that automate market creation, parameter configuration, and lifecycle management across thousands of concurrent markets.

4-7+ years of professional backend development experience, with strong proficiency in Python or Go (preferred), or another language such as Rust or Java.
(Plus) Experience with prediction markets, financial data, or real-world event detection systems.
(Plus) Familiarity with external data integrations - news feeds, sports APIs, oracles, or similar real-world data sources.
(Plus) Production experience with Kafka, Pulsar, or similar streaming platforms at scale.
(Plus) Experience deploying systems in cloud environments (AWS/GCP) and using containers.

We're looking for an experienced backend engineer who enjoys building reliable automation systems and tackling complex data integration problems at scale.

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