About this role

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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 engineer to build the systems that power how markets are created, managed, and resolved at scale. This role is focused on automation pipelines, data integrations, and the market lifecycle infrastructure that keeps thousands of markets accurate and up-to-date in real time.

You’ll be a core individual contributor working with other senior engineers to design, implement, and operate the systems that define Polymarket’s markets layer. This is a high-ownership role with minimal bureaucracy and a strong bias toward execution.

What You’ll Do

We’re looking for an experienced backend engineer who enjoys building reliable automation systems and tackling complex data integration problems at scale.

Build markets automation systems: Design and implement pipelines that automate market creation, parameter configuration, and lifecycle management across thousands of concurrent markets.

Engineer resolution infrastructure: Build reliable, data-driven resolution systems that integrate with external oracles, news feeds, sports APIs, and real-world data sources to settle markets accurately and on time.

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