Software Engineer - Markets

Polymarket Polymarket · Fintech · New York, NY · Engineering

Software Engineer to build automation and tooling for Polymarket's US Markets team, enabling faster market creation and resolution. The role involves owning the entire pipeline from market idea to live market, including backend services and an internal portal, to reduce manual processes and scale infrastructure.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build automation pipelines that turn manual market creation into self-serve workflows
  2. Own the internal markets portal where our team creates, configures, and resolves markets daily
  3. Design and implement backend services that handle market lifecycle from launch to settlement
  4. Create tools that let us spin up markets in response to breaking news within minutes, not hours
  5. Ship full-stack solutions using Node.js/TypeScript backends with React frontends

Skills

Required

  • 2-3 years of strong TypeScript and Node.js experience
  • Comfort building React frontends and full-stack applications
  • Background at startups
  • High agency mindset
  • Experience with automation and building internal tools

Nice to have

  • Previous experience with financial markets, trading platforms, or real-time data systems
  • AI/ML experience for market automation and data processing
  • DevOps experience with cloud platforms and deployment pipelines

What the JD emphasized

  • build the automation and tooling
  • own the entire pipeline
  • build the technical force multiplier
  • build solutions that didn't exist before
  • build the tool that makes it 30 seconds
  • build automation pipelines
  • Own the internal markets portal
  • Design and implement backend services
  • Create tools
  • Identify process bottlenecks and build systems