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# Senior Backend Engineer, Product Infrastructure

- **Company:** POLYMARKET CLEARING LLC
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Data Streaming, WebSocket, Cloud Platform System, Backend, Front End Software Development, Marketplace
- **Published:** October 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/senior-backend-engineer-product-infrastructure-new-york-ny--2d4a51fc-6280-45e6-aa80-2935ce204444

## About the Role

* Backend/product engineering experience designing and evolving domain APIs and data models for a consumer-facing product at scale.
 * Hands-on experience with gRPC/Connect and real-time streaming (e.g., WebSocket-to-gRPC-stream migrations) and event/notification infrastructure.
 * Track record partnering directly with frontend, mobile, and product teams to ship end-user features.
 * Experience unifying fragmented services and APIs into cleaner, reusable primitives.
 * Pragmatic judgment for balancing technical-debt cleanup with shipping new product surface area under P0 deadlines.
 * (Plus) Experience at a high-growth consumer product company or marketplace.
 * (Plus) Experience deploying systems in cloud environments (AWS/GCP) and using containers.

## Description

About PolymarketPolymarket 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 volume ($21B traded in 2025) and in adoption as an alternative news source. Our ambition is to become a ubiquitous beacon of truth in global media, powered by fast, reliable, and deeply technical market infrastructure.About the rolePolymarket is looking for a backend/product engineer to own the core domain APIs and data models that power our consumer-facing product.You'll work at the intersection of backend infrastructure and product, shipping the primitives that frontend, mobile, and product teams build on top of - with high ownership and a strong bias toward execution.What you'll doDesign core domain APIs: Build and evolve the APIs and data models that underpin Polymarket's consumer product at scale.Build real-time infrastructure: Develop gRPC/Connect services and real-time streaming systems (e.g., WebSocket-to-gRPC-stream migrations) alongside event and notification infrastructure.Ship end-user features: Partner directly with frontend, mobile, and product teams to deliver features like personalization, search, and live data feeds.Unify fragmented systems: Consolidate fragmented services and APIs into cleaner, reusable primitives that speed up future feature development.Balance debt and delivery: Pragmatically balance technical-debt cleanup with shipping new product surface area under tight deadlines.Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with engineers across product, infra, and data to ensure tight integration with the broader platform.What we're looking forBackend/product engineering experience designing and evolving domain APIs and data models for a consumer-facing product at scale.Hands-on experience with gRPC/Connect and real-time streaming (e.g., WebSocket-to-gRPC-stream migrations) and event/notification infrastructure.Track record partnering directly with frontend, mobile, and product teams to ship end-user features.Experience unifying fragmented services and APIs into cleaner, reusable primitives.Pragmatic judgment for balancing technical-debt cleanup with shipping new product surface area under P0 deadlines.(Plus) Experience at a high-growth consumer product company or marketplace.(Plus) Experience deploying systems in cloud environments (AWS/GCP) and using containers.BenefitsCompetitive salary & equityUnlimited PTOFull Health, Vision, & Dental coverage401k matchHardware setup - new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessoriesPay Transparency Base salary range: $250,000 to $500,000, plus equity and benefits.This is a good-faith range for the level we're hiring at. Experience varies widely within a title here, so if your expectations fall outside it, reach out anyway. We're always happy to talk it through.