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Backend Engineer, Markets

Engineering

Onsite · New York, USA

Mid

About the role

Join Polymarket's Markets Engineering team to build the infrastructure that keeps thousands of live markets accurate, current, and correctly resolved. This early-career backend role owns well-scoped production pipelines from the start.

Responsibilities

  • Build automation for market creation, parameter configuration, and lifecycle updates.
  • Integrate sports APIs, news feeds, and other external data used for market creation and resolution.
  • Design reliable, idempotent pipelines with safe re-runs, monitoring, and fast failure detection.
  • Debug production failures and contribute to code reviews and design discussions.

Requirements

  • One to four years of backend engineering experience or equivalent strong project and internship evidence.
  • Strong TypeScript, Python, or Go skills.
  • Experience integrating third-party APIs and working with inconsistent real-world data.
  • Comfort with Linux, cloud tooling, AI-native development tools, and production ownership.

How to apply

Apply through the official Polymarket job page linked to this opportunity.

Company

Polymarket is an online prediction market where users trade positions on the outcomes of future events.

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