Senior Backend Engineer, Trust & Safety
polymarket · New York ·
- Work mode
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Senior
- Category
- Backend
- Company size
- 501-1000
Build and maintain compliance and risk systems for a prediction market platform, integrating surveillance tools and ensuring regulatory adherence.
About Polymarket
Polymarket 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 terms of volume ($21B traded in 2025) and adoption as an alternative news source. Our ambition is to become a ubiquitous beacon of truth in global media and we need your help adding fuel to the fire.
About the Role
Polymarket is looking for a Backend Engineer to build the detection, monitoring, and case-management systems that keep our platform compliant and safe at scale.
This role partners closely with Compliance, Risk, and Legal to translate regulatory requirements into engineering systems that protect the platform and its users, with high ownership and direct impact on Polymarket's risk posture.
What You'll Do
Design and build detection, monitoring, and case-management systems to meet AML/BSA, KYC/EDD, and sanctions-screening obligations at scale
Build on or integrate with trade-surveillance and case-management platforms (e.g., Eventus, Palantir) and structure audit-grade data pipelines (tiered storage, long-term retention in S3) for compliance and financial-crimes review
Model and reconcile financial data (FinOps, ledger reconciliation) to ensure auditability and accuracy of money-movement records
Translate regulatory requirements into engineering systems — alerting, case queues, investigative reporting — in close partnership with Compliance, Risk, and Legal
Develop real-time risk decisioning and transaction-monitoring systems to detect and respond to financial crime
Work closely with engineers across the platform to keep Trust & Safety systems tightly integrated with the broader exchange
What We're Looking For
Backend engineering experience building detection, monitoring, or case-management tooling for AML/BSA, KYC/EDD, or sanctions-screening obligations at scale
Experience integrating or building on trade-surveillance and case-management platforms (e.g., Eventus, Palantir) and structuring audit-grade data pipelines
Comfortable modeling and reconciling financial data (FinOps, ledger reconciliation) for auditability and accuracy
Track record partnering directly with Compliance, Risk, and Legal teams to translate regulatory requirements into engineering systems
Background in risk/fraud or compliance-technology engineering at a fintech or crypto exchange
(Plus) Experience building real-time risk decisioning or transaction-monitoring systems at scale
Benefits
Competitive salary & equity
Unlimited PTO
Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage
401k match
Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories
Pay Transparency
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.