Senior Backend Engineer - Real-Time, Low-Latency Systems

Polymarket; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & equity

Unlimited PTO

Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage

401k match

Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big显示

Job summary

Polymarket, the world s largest prediction market platform, is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for the Services team in New York. You will design low-latency backend services in Go, tune production systems, and build event-driven data pipelines with Kafka or Pulsar to support real-time trades.

You ll work with Go, Python/Java, Linux, and cloud environments (AWS/GCP) to ensure speed, correctness, and availability as Polymarket scales.

Qualifications

• 4 to 7+ years of professional backend development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Go, Python, or Java; Go experience is a significant advantage.
• Deep understanding of algorithms, data structures, concurrency, and memory management.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement low-latency backend services powering Polymarket's core exchange, primarily in Go, with Python or Java where appropriate.
• Profile and tune systems across the full stack to identify bottlenecks in latency, throughput, and memory usage.
• Build and maintain event-driven data pipelines using Kafka or Pulsar and APIs to move data quickly and reliably.
• Own production reliability: diagnose incidents, write postmortems, and ship fixes to prevent recurrence.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

Concurrency

Memory management

Linux

AWS

GCP

Tools

Kafka

Pulsar

gRPC

Protobuf

ZeroMQ

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Polymarket, the world s largest prediction market platform, is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for the Services team in New York. You will design low-latency backend services in Go, tune production systems, and build event-driven data pipelines with Kafka or Pulsar to support real-time trades.

You ll work with Go, Python/Java, Linux, and cloud environments (AWS/GCP) to ensure speed, correctness, and availability as Polymarket scales.