Senior Backend Engineer, Product Infrastructure

Polymarket; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary & equity

Unlimited PTO

Health, Vision, Dental

401k match

MacBook Pro setup

Job summary

Polymarket is seeking a backend/product engineer to own core domain APIs and data models powering our consumer-facing product. You’ll work at the intersection of backend infrastructure and product, shipping primitives that frontend, mobile, and product teams rely on.

You’ll design APIs, build real-time gRPC/Connect services and streaming, and collaborate across engineering, infra, and data to unify fragmented systems and enable fast feature delivery.

Qualifications

• Backend/product engineering experience designing and evolving domain APIs for a consumer-facing product at scale.
• Hands-on experience with gRPC/Connect and real-time streaming and event/notification infrastructure.
• Proven track record partnering with frontend, mobile, and product teams to ship end-user features.
• Experience unifying fragmented services and APIs into reusable primitives.
• Pragmatic balance of technical debt cleanup with shipping new product surface area under tight deadlines.
• Experience at a high-growth consumer product company or marketplace is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design core domain APIs and data models powering Polymarket’s consumer product.
• Build real-time infrastructure with gRPC/Connect and streaming systems.
• Ship end-user features in collaboration with frontend, mobile, and product teams.
• Unify fragmented services into reusable primitives to speed future development.
• Balance technical debt cleanup with delivering new product surfaces under deadlines.
• Collaborate with engineers across product, infra, and data for tight platform integration.

Skills

Domain APIs

Data models

gRPC/Connect

Real-time streaming

End-user features

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

AWS

GCP

Containers

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 volume ($21B traded in 2025) and in adoption as an alternative news source. Our ambition is to become a ubiquitous beacon of truth in global media, powered by fast, reliable, and deeply technical market infrastructure.

About the role

Polymarket is looking for a backend/product engineer to own the core domain APIs and data models that power our consumer-facing product.

You’ll work at the intersection of backend infrastructure and product, shipping the primitives that frontend, mobile, and product teams build on top of — with high ownership and a strong bias toward execution.

What you’ll do

• Design core domain APIs: Build and evolve the APIs and data models that underpin Polymarket’s consumer product at scale.

• Build real-time infrastructure: Develop gRPC/Connect services and real-time streaming systems (e.g., WebSocket-to-gRPC-stream migrations) alongside event and notification infrastructure.

• Ship end-user features: Partner directly with frontend, mobile, and product teams to deliver features like personalization, search, and live data feeds.

• Unify fragmented systems: Consolidate fragmented services and APIs into cleaner, reusable primitives that speed up future feature development.

• Balance debt and delivery: Pragmatically balance technical-debt cleanup with shipping new product surface area under tight deadlines.

• Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with engineers across product, infra, and data to ensure tight integration with the broader platform.

What we’re looking for

• Backend/product engineering experience designing and evolving domain APIs and data models for a consumer-facing product at scale.

• Hands-on experience with gRPC/Connect and real-time streaming (e.g., WebSocket-to-gRPC-stream migrations) and event/notification infrastructure.

• Track record partnering directly with frontend, mobile, and product teams to ship end-user features.

• Experience unifying fragmented services and APIs into cleaner, reusable primitives.

• Pragmatic judgment for balancing technical-debt cleanup with shipping new product surface area under P0 deadlines.

• (Plus) Experience at a high-growth consumer product company or marketplace.

• (Plus) Experience deploying systems in cloud environments (AWS/GCP) and using containers.

Benefits

• Competitive salary & equity

• Unlimited PTO

• Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage

• 401k match

• Hardware setup — new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories