Polymarket
Senior Backend Engineer, US Exchange
Job Description
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You will build and scale core exchange infrastructure, designing and implementing scalable, low-latency backend services using C/C++ or other performance-oriented systems languages. You will profile, tune, and debug production systems with a focus on latency, throughput, memory usage, and correctness. You will design and operate distributed APIs, data pipelines, and event-driven systems using messaging and streaming platforms. You will own reliability, availability, security, and participate in diagnosing and resolving production incidents. You will collaborate with engineers across product, infrastructure, and data and contribute to code reviews and architectural decisions to maintain high engineering standards.
Requirements
- ā4ā7+ years of professional backend development experience
- āStrong proficiency in C/C++ or another systems language (Go Rust Java)
- āSolid understanding of algorithms data structures concurrency and memory management
- āExperience building low-latency high-throughput systems
- āAbility to debug production issues on Linux and ensure correctness and performance
- ā(Plus) Experience in trading systems HFT gaming telecom or other latency-sensitive domains
- ā(Plus) Production experience with Kafka Pulsar or similar streaming platforms
- ā(Plus) Familiarity with gRPC Protobuf ZeroMQ or similar technologies
- ā(Plus) Experience deploying systems in cloud environments (AWS GCP) and using containers
Responsibilities
- āDesign and implement scalable low-latency backend services
- āProfile, tune, and debug production systems for latency throughput memory usage and correctness
- āDesign and operate distributed APIs data pipelines and event-driven systems
- āReinforce reliability availability security and scalability across backend systems
- āDiagnose and resolve production issues
- āCollaborate with cross-functional engineers to ensure system integration
- āParticipate in code reviews design discussions and architectural decisions
Benefits & Perks
- āEquity
- āUnlimited PTO
- āHealth coverage
- āVision coverage
- āDental coverage
- ā401k match
- āHardware setup (new MacBook Pro big display and accessories)