Staff Software Engineer, Mission Control

About Polymarket The world’s largest prediction market, where users trade on the outcomes of real-world events. By putting real money behind opinions, Polymarket cuts through noise, bias, and speculation to surface a single powerful signal: what people actually believe will happen. From elections and geopolitics to business, culture, and breaking news, Polymarket transforms headlines into live markets with constantly updating probabilities. The result is a real-time, crowd-driven forecast of the future — more dynamic and often more accurate than traditional polling or expert analysis. Polymarket provides clarity. Not through commentary, but through markets.

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polymarket.us

51-200 employees

Software Development

New York, NY

2020

Privately Held

95k LinkedIn followers

Raised $2.3B

• Own and lead Mission Control. Set the technical vision and roadmap for the platform used to run Polymarket, the engine behind our markets, operations, compliance, and growth.
• Build Mission Control as a platform. Design the core abstractions, data models, and extension points that let teams across the company build on Mission Control safely and quickly, without a dedicated engineer for every workflow.
• Architect markets automation at scale. Drive the design of systems that change how markets are researched, structured, deployed, and managed as volume grows.
• Make high-stakes technical decisions. Lead architecture and design reviews, weigh tradeoffs across reliability, security, compliance, and speed, and make sure our systems meet the standards of a regulated exchange.
• Influence beyond your team. Work with core product, infrastructure, and data teams to align on interfaces, shared services, and standards. Identify problems across the company before they become blockers.
• Embed with and partner across teams. Work directly with leaders in Markets, Product, Polymarket US, Trust & Safety, Compliance, Operations, and CX to turn their strategic goals into technical priorities and shape how their teams work.
• Multiply the team. Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, set the engineering culture and quality bar, and help shape hiring and team growth.

• 8+ years of professional software development experience, including significant time as a technical lead or architect on production systems
• Deep expertise designing, building, and scaling full-stack web applications and platforms
• Expert-level skills in TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), and CSS
• Extensive experience with React and Node.js (Next.js is a bonus)
• A track record of setting technical direction and delivering large, cross-team initiatives from strategy through execution
• Exceptional system design skills, including designing platforms that other teams build on
• Proven ability to influence without authority and drive alignment among engineering, product, and business leaders
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and shaping engineering culture, standards, and hiring
• Strong customer empathy: you understand what teams actually need, not just what they ask for
• Strong judgment under ambiguity: you know when to move fast, when to invest for the long term, and how to explain the difference
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to write clear technical strategy and present tradeoffs to executives
• A passion for blockchain, decentralized finance, and freedom of speech
• (Plus) Experience building internal platforms or tooling for compliance, AML, surveillance, risk, or trading operations
• (Plus) Experience in a regulated environment such as an exchange, brokerage, or financial institution
• (Plus) Experience in an embedded or field engineering role, working directly alongside product or operations teams
• (Plus) Experience with workflow automation or deployment pipelines
• (Plus) Background in fintech, crypto, exchanges, or data-heavy applications
• (Plus) Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

• Competitive salary & equity
• Full health, vision, & dental coverage
• 401(k) match
• Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories
• Base salary range: $250,000 to $500,000 annually, plus equity and benefits.
• This range reflects a good-faith estimate for this position. Experience levels vary widely within a title here, so please reach out even if your expectations fall outside it. We're always happy to chat.