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Polymarket

Forward Deployed Engineer, Institutional

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About this role

Polymarket seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to serve as the primary technical liaison between institutional clients and the engineering team. You'll own the onboarding experience for market makers integrating with our APIs, troubleshoot production issues, and translate client feedback into platform improvements.

What you'll do

  • Own technical onboarding for institutional clients integrating REST, WebSocket, and order entry APIs
  • Serve as primary technical contact for key partners post-launch, triaging issues and coordinating engineering resolutions
  • Create integration guides, code samples, and documentation to accelerate client time-to-live
  • Collaborate with product and engineering to prioritize client feedback and feature requests
  • Identify API bottlenecks and latency issues proactively; monitor client health and usage patterns
  • Support sales on technical due diligence during deal cycles

What they're looking for

  • REST and WebSocket API integration
  • Python or JavaScript development
  • Trading systems and electronic market infrastructure knowledge
  • Technical account management or solutions engineering
  • Exchange or fintech integration experience
  • FIX protocol or financial data feed familiarity
  • Client communication and stakeholder management
  • Production debugging and troubleshooting

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Full health, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401k match
  • Hardware setup including MacBook Pro and peripherals
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Polymarket

Polymarket operates a prediction market platform where users trade on real-world events. The company is hiring software engineers, growth engineers, and integration engineers to build and improve its core platform, developer APIs and SDKs, internal operational systems, and growth features.

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Likely interview questions

  • Walk us through your most complex API integration with a trading client—what went wrong and how did you resolve it?
  • How would you handle a situation where a market maker's order latency spiked unexpectedly and they're threatening to leave?
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