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Staff Backend Engineer, Perpetuals

Polymarket is hiring for Staff Backend Engineer, Perpetuals in New York. Staff level. First seen August 6, 2026; open as of November 10, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.

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Company
Polymarket
Where
New York
Level
Staff
First seen
August 6, 2026
Listed via
Ashby

What the posting says

Exchange experience is a big plus but not required. What matters most is deep distributed systems experience and a track record of building systems where latency and correctness both count. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own core backend systems. Take deep ownership of the distributed systems behind order processing, position management and state across perpetual futures. - Drive latency and throughput. Profile hot paths, reduce contention, and improve performance. Back every change with benchmarks and production data. - Design for correctness at scale. Build queueing, backpressure and consistency…

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