Senior Backend Engineer, Trading & Connectivity

What this role involves

Polymarket is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to build high-throughput connectivity infrastructure for their prediction market platform. The role involves designing event-driven systems, optimizing latency, and providing technical leadership. Candidates need 8+ years of backend experience with expertise in Kafka, gRPC, and distributed systems.

Skills this posting asks for

• kafka
• grpc
• dynamodb
• redis
• protobuf
• aws
• gcp

Requirements

• 8 years of experience
• Level: senior

From the employer’s posting

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,” Polym…