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About this role
Join Polymarket as a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical strategy for Mission Control, the platform powering our prediction market operations. Competitive salary, unlimited PTO, and a dynamic work environment await.
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.Responsibilities
What You’ll Do
- Own and lead Mission Control. Set the technical vision and roadmap for the platform used to run Polymarket, the engine behind our markets, operations, compliance, and growth.
- Build Mission Control as a platform. Design the core abstractions, data models, and extension points that let teams across the company build on Mission Control safely and quickly, without a dedicated engineer for every workflow.
- Architect markets automation at scale. Drive the design of systems that change how markets are researched, structured, deployed, and managed as volume grows.
- Make high-stakes technical decisions. Lead architecture and design reviews, weigh tradeoffs across reliability, security, compliance, and speed, and make sure our systems meet the standards of a regulated exchange.
- Influence beyond your team. Work with core product, infrastructure, and data teams to align on interfaces, shared services, and standards. Identify problems across the company before they become blockers.
- Embed with and partner across teams. Work directly with leaders in Markets, Product, Polymarket US, Trust & Safety, Compliance, Operations, and CX to turn their strategic goals into technical priorities and shape how their teams work.
- Multiply the team. Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, set the engineering culture and quality bar, and help shape hiring and team growth.
Requirements
What We’re Looking For
- 8+ years of professional software development experience, including significant time as a technical lead or architect on production systems.
- Deep expertise designing, building, and scaling full-stack web applications and platforms.
- Expert-level skills in TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), and CSS.
- Extensive experience with React and Node.js (Next.js is a bonus).
- A track record of setting technical direction and delivering large, cross-team initiatives from strategy through execution.
- Exceptional system design skills, including designing platforms that other teams build on.
- Proven ability to influence without authority and drive alignment among engineering, product, and business leaders.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and shaping engineering culture, standards, and hiring.
- Strong customer empathy: you understand what teams actually need, not just what they ask for.
- Strong judgment under ambiguity: you know when to move fast, when to invest for the long term, and how to explain the difference.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to write clear technical strategy and present tradeoffs to executives.
- A passion for blockchain, decentralized finance, and freedom of speech.
- (Plus) Experience building internal platforms or tooling for compliance, AML, surveillance, risk, or trading operations.
- (Plus) Experience in a regulated environment such as an exchange, brokerage, or financial institution.
- (Plus) Experience in an embedded or field engineering role, working directly alongside product or operations teams.
- (Plus) Experience with workflow automation or deployment pipelines.
- (Plus) Background in fintech, crypto, exchanges, or data-heavy applications.
- (Plus) Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
Conditions & Benefits
Benefits
- Competitive salary & equity.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Full health, vision, & dental coverage.
- 401(k) match.
- Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories.
Job Details
Salary$250,000–$500,000
LocationOffice
AI Score★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10
PostedOct 9, 2026 (3d ago)
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Tech Stack
TypeScriptJavaScriptCSSReactNode.jsNext.js