Senior Backend Engineer, Exchange Systems

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Senior Backend Engineer, Exchange Systems Remote, United States, New York 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 join our DeFi Trading team and own core improvements to our exchange systems. You'll work across low-latency APIs, high-throughput data streams, and settlement-aware order state and with a specific focus on evolving our CLOB engine to be faster, safer, and more concurrent as the platform scales. This role requires someone who can reason clearly about how on-chain transaction lifecycle, confirmations, reorgs, balances, approvals, and execution outcomes affect off-chain exchange state. The problems are deep, the stakes are real, and the work will be immediately visible in production. What You'll Do - Own the CLOB engine's critical path. Profile matching and orderbook hot paths, map settlement-sensitive state transitions, and drive improvements to latency, throughput, and async engine flow backed by benchmarks and production-grade evidence. - Reduce lock contention without breaking correctness. Debug

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