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Salary: USD 250,000 - 500,000 / annual
Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market platform, enabling individuals to trade on outcomes across politics, economics, sports, culture, and current affairs. The platform operates as a peer-to-peer marketplace with no centralized house, aggregating diverse opinions into transparent, market-based probabilities. In 2025, the platform processed $21B in trading volume and is positioned as an alternative news source.
You will own and lead Mission Control, Polymarket's internal operational platform that serves as the backbone for Markets, Product, Polymarket US, Trust & Safety, Compliance, Exchange Operations, and Customer Experience teams. This role requires setting the technical vision and long-term architecture for systems that power how Polymarket operates at scale.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning Mission Control's technical strategy and roadmap, defining the platform's evolution to meet strategic organizational goals
- Designing core abstractions, data models, and extension points that enable teams across the company to build safely and quickly without dedicated engineering resources
- Architecting markets automation systems that scale with volume growth, including research, structuring, deployment, and management workflows
- Leading high-stakes technical decisions through architecture and design reviews, weighing tradeoffs across reliability, security, compliance, and speed
- Influencing cross-functional alignment with core product, infrastructure, and data teams on interfaces, shared services, and standards
- Partnering directly with leaders across Markets, Product, Trust & Safety, Compliance, Operations, and CX to translate strategic goals into technical priorities
- Mentoring senior and mid-level engineers, setting engineering culture and quality standards, and shaping hiring and team growth
This is a role for an experienced technical leader seeking broad ownership, organizational influence, and direct involvement in how Polymarket operates as it scales.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 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 proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), and CSS
- Extensive experience with React and Node.js (Next.js is a bonus)
- Proven track record setting technical direction and delivering large, cross-team initiatives from strategy through execution
- Exceptional system design skills, particularly designing platforms that other teams build on
- Demonstrated 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 and understanding of actual team needs
- Strong judgment under ambiguity regarding when to move fast versus invest for the long term
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including ability to write clear technical strategy and present tradeoffs to executives
- Passion for blockchain, decentralized finance, and freedom of speech
Plus factors (not required):
- Experience building internal platforms or tooling for compliance, AML, surveillance, risk, or trading operations
- Experience in regulated environments such as exchanges, brokerages, or financial institutions
- Experience in embedded or field engineering roles working directly with product or operations teams
- Experience with workflow automation or deployment pipelines
- Background in fintech, crypto, exchanges, or data-heavy applications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
