Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Merciv is the company behind Polymarket, the world’s largest prediction market platform. They are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to architect and optimize high-throughput systems that power their prediction markets, ensuring reliability and efficiency as they scale.
Responsibilities
- Architect & build backend systems. You'll design, implement, and maintain high-performance backend services and APIs that handle large-scale transactions and real-time data
- Optimize performance & scalability. You’ll push the limits of our system’s throughput and efficiency, ensuring seamless operation at scale
- Enhance security & reliability. You’ll implement best practices for secure, fault-tolerant, and highly available distributed systems
- Cross-company collaboration. You’ll collaborate with front-end engineers, designers, and stakeholders across the company to deliver a fully integrated user experience
- Contribute to code reviews. You'll play a critical role in maintaining the high quality of our codebase by providing feedback and suggestions on others' work during code review sessions
- Participate in research & innovation. You’ll stay at the forefront of blockchain-based trading technologies, exploring new solutions to improve our platform
- Interface with Customers. You’ll communicate directly with customers, providing support and gathering feedback
Skills
- 8+ years of experience in backend development
- Experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact and high usage
- Master-level proficiency in systems programming languages like Golang, Rust, or C++
- Strong knowledge of database systems and internals (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB)
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP) and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
- Blockchain-specific backend experience (e.g., working on BFT consensus engines, event indexing systems, libp2p)
- Experience with Ethereum roll-up technologies (e.g., Arbitrum Nova, Optimism)
- Open source contributor
- Active participant on ethresear.ch
Benefits
- Competitive salary & equity
- Unlimited PTO, Health, Vision, & Dental coverage
- 401k match
- Hardware setup — new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories.
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