Senior Backend Engineer, API
Role Overview
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Polymarket, you'll architect and implement Go-based services that power the core backend for market creation, trading, and resolution at high scale. You'll define API versioning, error handling, and service health standards, while collaborating cross-functionally and owning reliability through on-call rotations. This senior role requires 5+ years of Go experience and deep expertise in microservices, SQL, and event-driven architectures.
Perks & Benefits
Polymarket offers competitive salary and equity, unlimited PTO, full health/vision/dental coverage, and a 401k match. The role is fully remote with a hardware setup including a new MacBook Pro and large display. As a fast-growing startup, you'll have significant product impact and opportunities to shape engineering standards.
Full 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 terms of volume ($21B traded in 2025) and adoption as an alternative news source. Our ambition is to become a ubiquitous beacon of truth in global media and we need your help adding fuel to the fire.
About the Role
Polymarket is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to work on Gamma, the core backend powering Polymarket's markets platform. Gamma processes every market creation, trade, and resolution on the platform: at scale, under load, with no margin for error. You'll ship features with direct product impact, push the boundaries of what the system can handle, and help define how ownership evolves as the platform grows. If you want your work to matter immediately and visibly, this is that role.
What You'll Do
Architect and implement Go-based services. Design and build services capable of sustaining high request throughput with low latency at scale.
Define and enforce engineering standards. Own API versioning strategy, error handling conventions, and service health benchmarks across the backend.
Uphold code quality. Drive quality through code reviews, shared conventions, and technical documentation that the broader team can build on.
Partner cross-functionally. Collaborate with teams across product and infrastructure to align backend services with broader company goals.
Own reliability. Contribute to on-call rotations and drive reliability improvements informed by incident trends and system behavior.
What We're Looking For
5+ years of production Go experience: fluent in Go idioms, interfaces, and concurrency patterns
Strong API and microservices architecture experience: designing, implementing, and maintaining REST and GraphQL APIs at scale
Deep SQL expertise with PostgreSQL or MySQL, plus familiarity with non-relational stores including Redis and ClickHouse
Event-driven architecture experience: messaging systems like Redpanda or Kafka, real-time data pipelines, and gRPC service communication
Hands-on observability and monitoring experience with Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry for tracing, metrics, and alerting
(Plus) 1+ years of production Rust experience
(Plus) Familiarity with prediction markets, trading platforms, or financial systems
(Plus) Experience with blockchain or Web3 systems, particularly EVM-based
(Plus) Prior experience in a fast-paced startup environment
Benefits
Competitive salary & equity
Unlimited PTO
Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage
401k match
Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories
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