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# Senior Backend Engineer, Perpetuals at Polymarket

- **Company:** Polymarket
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-06-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/polymarket/2ce7eeb4-e294-40d4-b437-2b6656215245/application

**Skills:** Rust, Low-latency systems, Concurrency, Performance profiling, Order state management, Matching engines, Metrics, Logs, Distributed traces, Algorithms, Data structures, Systems design, High-frequency trading infrastructure, Redis, PostgreSQL, gRPC, Protobuf, Kubernetes, AWS

> Polymarket is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own and optimize core exchange systems for perpetual futures. The role focuses on low-latency order matching, high-throughput state management, and reliability in Rust.

## Job description

## 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 terms of volume ($21B traded in 2025) and adoption as an alternative news source. Our ambition is to become a ubiquitous beacon of truth in global media and we need your help adding fuel to the fire.

## About the Role

Polymarket is launching perpetual futures and we're looking for Senior Backend Engineers to own the core systems that make it run. This is backend exchange engineering in the truest sense: low-latency order matching, high-throughput order state management, and the infrastructure that keeps an exchange operating correctly under load. Ownership here is real and broad. We're looking for engineers who have built and operated order-book-based exchange systems before and can step in with deep context, take meaningful ownership of critical backend components, and raise the reliability and performance of the platform as we scale. If you've worked on the backend of a serious exchange and want to do it again somewhere with momentum, this is the role.

## What You'll Do

- Own core exchange backend systems. Take deep ownership of the systems that power order matching, position management, and order state across perpetual futures.
- Build and optimize the matching engine. Profile hot paths, reduce lock contention, and drive improvements to latency and throughput backed by benchmarks and production-grade evidence.
- Design for correctness at scale. Build queueing and backpressure mechanisms that keep the orderbook consistent and reliable under high load, without crossing books, creating ghost fills, or introducing stale order state.
- Build for observability. Instrument systems with metrics, logs, and traces. Establish rollback guarantees and narrow critical paths that make production incidents faster to detect, diagnose, and resolve.
- Improve runtime performance. Optimize CPU, memory, and allocation behavior to meet the demands of a high-throughput exchange in production.
- Own production incidents end-to-end. Debug latency and correctness issues directly, and drive follow-through that leaves the system measurably better each time.

## What We're Looking For

- Senior backend engineering experience with a strong background in order-book-based exchange systems
- Deep knowledge of low-latency systems: concurrency, lock contention, async correctness, and performance profiling
- Experience with matching engines, order state management, or similar exchange infrastructure
- Comfort working in Rust or a strong willingness to work in it — enthusiasm for the language is a plus, resistance to it is a red flag
- Strong observability fundamentals: metrics, logs, distributed traces, and profiling tools
- Strong computer science fundamentals: algorithms, data structures, and systems design
- (Plus) Experience with high-frequency or low-latency trading infrastructure
- (Plus) Familiarity with Redis, PostgreSQL, gRPC, and Protobuf
- (Plus) Kubernetes and AWS production operations experience

## Benefits

- Competitive salary & equity
- Unlimited PTO
- Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage
- 401k match
- Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories

Pay Transparency Base salary range: $250,000 to $500,000 annually, plus equity and benefits. This range reflects a good-faith estimate for this position. Experience levels vary widely within a title here, so please reach out even if your expectations fall outside it. We're always happy to chat.

## About Polymarket

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market platform, enabling users to trade on the outcomes of real-world events to surface a crowd‑driven signal of what people actually believe will happen.
- **Entity Type**: Private (multiple funding rounds; latest $2B corporate round led by Intercontinental Exchange in November 2025)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Prediction markets / Information markets / Financial technology
- **Target customers**: B2C (30 million monthly visitors) and B2B (institutional investors, media, financial firms using data for research and hedging)
- **Mission or purpose**: “Become the new front page of the internet” and “Define the coming era of finance” by rewarding conviction and bringing private insight to life in the public forum [careers.polymarket.com](https://careers.polymarket.com/)

## Products & Services
- **Polymarket Platform (Prediction Markets)**: A decentralized platform where users trade on the probabilities of future events across politics, geopolitics, business, culture, and breaking news. Real‑time, crowd‑driven forecasts often more accurate than polling. [polymarket.com](https://polymarket.com/)
- **Event‑Data Feeds**: Aggregated market probabilities distributed via partnerships with X, Substack, Yahoo Finance, and other media to provide “the true signal in world events.” [careers.polymarket.com](https://careers.polymarket.com/)
- **Institutional & Media Solutions**: Partnerships with Dow Jones (official information market for WSJ, Barron’s, MarketWatch) and Intercontinental Exchange (owner of NYSE) to distribute event‑driven data to global markets and power next‑generation hedging strategies. [careers.polymarket.com](https://careers.polymarket.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed; total funding exceeds $2.87B (see below)
- **Key Metric**:
  - **Annual Revenue**: $17.9M (as reported by LinkedIn)
  - **Total Funding**: $2.874B (including a $2B corporate round from Intercontinental Exchange in November 2025, a $45M Series B led by Founders Fund in May 2024, and earlier rounds)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**:
  - Intercontinental Exchange (lead in 2025 corporate round)
  - Founders Fund (lead in Series B)
  - Dow Jones (official data partnership)
  - Key acquisitions: QCEX ($112M), Brahma, Dome
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Monthly visitors: ~45 million (global rank #816, traffic up +373% year‑over‑year)
  - Headcount: 201 employees (+775% YoY)
  - Active job postings: 42 (monthly +44.8%, yearly +1300%)
  - Expanded to 20 countries; offices in New York, United States (HQ), plus remote presence

## Competitive Advantages
- **First‑mover and market dominance** in prediction markets with the deepest liquidity and widest event coverage.
- **Institutional credibility** through partnerships with Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE owner) and Dow Jones – an unmatched bridge between retail prediction markets and traditional finance.
- **Real‑time, crowd‑sourced accuracy** that is often faster and more reliable than polls or experts, attracting both retail users and institutional clients.
- **Network effects**: 30M monthly visitors provide the liquidity that makes the platform useful; data feeds are increasingly embedded in major media and financial platforms.

## Strategic Focus
- **Institutional expansion**: Leveraging partnerships with ICE and Dow Jones to integrate Polymarket data into financial research, hedging, and media.
- **Becoming the “front page of the internet”** – making market probabilities the default way to understand any breaking news event.
- **Defining the next era of finance** by merging real‑time information markets with traditional financial instruments.
- **Talent acquisition**: Actively hiring quantitative traders, data analysts, derivatives experts, AML compliance officers, and engineering roles to scale platform, security, and institutional support. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/polymarket)

## Why Work Here
- **High‑growth environment**: 775% headcount growth in the past year; massive traffic scaling and institutional adoption create exciting challenges.
- **Mission‑driven culture**: Build the “information market” that cuts through noise and empowers better decision‑making – a blend of finance, tech, and media.
- **Engineering & data focus**: Tech stack includes blockchain, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Terraform, Python, and JavaScript; roles span application security, AI ops, data engineering, and Android development.
- **Remote & office flexibility**: Headquarters in New York, NY; operates in 20 countries. Hybrid/remote policy not specified but international presence suggests flexibility.
- **Compensation & culture**: Employer rating 4.3/5 (perfect scores for work‑life, compensation, culture, career). Senior Accounting Manager salary listed at $225k–$240k (New York). [indeed.com](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Polymarket)
- **Notable perks / engineering culture**: Emphasis on decentralized finance, open‑source principles, and “rewarding conviction” – a fast‑paced, intellectually stimulating environment.

## Sources
1. [careers.polymarket.com](https://careers.polymarket.com/)
2. [polymarket.com](https://polymarket.com/)
3. [linkedin.com (company profile)](https://www.linkedin.com/company/polymarket/jobs)
4. [indeed.com (salary data)](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Polymarket)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com (open roles)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/polymarket)

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