Senior Backend Engineer, ISV (Product Infrastructure) at Polymarket
New York, NY
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Jul 23, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend/product engineering role focused on designing and maintaining the core APIs and data models that underlie a consumer-facing prediction market platform. Day-to-day work spans building gRPC/Connect services, real-time streaming infrastructure, and event/notification systems, while collaborating with frontend, mobile, and product teams to ship features such as personalization and live data feeds. Suits engineers comfortable consolidating fragmented services and balancing technical debt against fast delivery cycles.
Senior level · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 18,200 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 10,900–32,800
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
No location is specified in the posting; the role appears to be remote or location-flexible. CBSA and state fields are left blank accordingly.
The title 'backend/product engineer' carries no seniority level, but the scope — owning core domain APIs at scale, unifying fragmented systems, and partnering cross-functionally under P0 deadlines — supports a Senior classification.
gRPC and Connect are listed together as interchangeable protocol/framework options ('gRPC/Connect'); Connect is captured as an alternative.
Cloud environments (AWS/GCP) and containers are explicitly flagged as a '(Plus)' bonus, so they are marked preferred.
No specific programming language is named anywhere in the posting; no language skill is emitted.
Compensation is described only as 'competitive salary & equity' with no figures given.
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