Prediction market platform built on Ethereum for betting on outcomes
Polymarket operates a prediction market on Ethereum where users trade on event outcomes. The stack reveals a duality: TypeScript/React/Next.js for web frontend, plus Solidity for smart contracts on EVM, paired with Kafka/PostgreSQL/MongoDB for backend state. Hiring is engineering-heavy and accelerating (18 roles in 30 days), with projects centered on developer ecosystem growth, operational controls, and support scaling—indicating tension between rapid trading volume growth and internal infrastructure maturity around monitoring, support workflows, and regulatory compliance.
Polymarket is a prediction market platform where users trade positions on real-world events and outcomes. Founded in 2020 and based in New York, the company operates as a 11–50 person team. The product combines a Solidity-based smart contract layer (EVM/Uniswap integration) with a full-stack web application (React, Next.js, TypeScript). The engineering organization is scaling to handle high-volume trading loads and expanding an external developer ecosystem, while simultaneously investing in internal tooling for operational controls, monitoring, and support automation.
Frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS, REST, GraphQL. Smart contracts: Solidity on Ethereum Virtual Machine. Backend: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Redis, ElastiCache, AWS Lambda, Kubernetes. Infrastructure: AWS, Terraform, Docker, GitHub Actions, Cloudflare.
Core projects: developer ecosystem growth, API integration strategy, user-facing features, operational controls, support workflow automation, and monitoring/alerting infrastructure. Pain points include high-latency trading load, scalable support workflows, and regulatory compliance.
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