Senior Backend Engineer: Exchange Core (Low-Latency Rust)

Polymarket; City of Utica (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & equity

Unlimited PTO

Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage

401k match

Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro

Job summary

Polymarket is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to manage core systems that support their exchange. This role involves optimizing low-latency order matching and ensuring system reliability under load.

The ideal candidate will have experience in building exchange systems, strong Rust knowledge, and a passion for backend engineering. Benefits include competitive pay, unlimited PTO, and comprehensive health coverage.

Qualifications

• Senior backend engineering experience with order-book-based exchange systems.
• Knowledge of low-latency systems and performance profiling.
• Experience with matching engines or order state management.

Responsibilities

• Own core exchange backend systems and drive improvements.
• Build and optimize the matching engine for latency and throughput.
• Design systems for correctness at scale and improve runtime performance.

Skills

Low-latency systems

Order-book-based exchange systems

Concurrency

Performance profiling

Observability fundamentals

Algorithms

Tools

Rust

Redis

PostgreSQL

gRPC

Protobuf

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Polymarket is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to manage core systems that support their exchange. This role involves optimizing low-latency order matching and ensuring system reliability under load.

The ideal candidate will have experience in building exchange systems, strong Rust knowledge, and a passion for backend engineering. Benefits include competitive pay, unlimited PTO, and comprehensive health coverage.