Polymarket is the world’s largest prediction market, allowing you to stay informed and profit from your knowledge by trading on future events across various topics. Backed by General Catalyst and Founders Fund.
About the role
We're hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the systems that keep Polymarket fair and safe: identity and onboarding, fraud and financial crime controls, market surveillance, and user protections. You'll partner closely with our Trust & Safety, Surveillance, and Compliance leaders. They define the policy and run the investigations, and your team builds the detection, controls, and tools that make their work possible at scale. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years in software engineering and 2+ years managing engineers
- Experience building trust and safety, integrity, fraud, risk, or surveillance systems at a company operating at meaningful scale
- Comfort working in a regulated environment and translating compliance requirements into concrete system design
- Strong data-intensive systems skills: event streams, rules engines, detection pipelines, and the tradeoffs between real-time and batch
- Collaboration with non-engineering partners. You'll work with policy, investigations, and compliance teams every day
- (Plus) Experience at an exchange, broker, or crypto platform with trade surveillance or AML obligations
More about this role
Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market. In the US, we operate a CFTC-regulated exchange and clearinghouse, which comes with real obligations to protect our markets and our users. We recently launched our Trust & Safety program and are building surveillance and compliance capabilities in-house. Engineering is the team that makes those commitments work in production.
We're hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the systems that keep Polymarket fair and safe: identity and onboarding, fraud and financial crime controls, market surveillance, and user protections. You'll partner closely with our Trust & Safety, Surveillance, and Compliance leaders. They define the policy and run the investigations, and your team builds the detection, controls, and tools that make their work possible at scale.
• Own identity verification and onboarding systems (KYC), including vendor integrations, decisioning, and the edge cases that come with them.
• Build fraud and financial crime controls: payment risk checks, AML transaction monitoring, and sanctions screening.
• Build trade and market surveillance that detects manipulation, wash trading, spoofing, and misuse of non-public...
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