Engineering Manager (Fintech)

Location: New York, United States; on-site

Base salary: $250,000–$400,000 annually, plus equity and benefits. Compensation is listed as $350,000–$500,000.

Company

Polymarket operates a prediction market with a CFTC-regulated exchange and clearinghouse in the United States.

What you will do

• Own identity verification and onboarding systems, including KYC vendor integrations, decisioning, and edge cases.
• Build fraud and financial crime controls, including payment risk checks, AML transaction monitoring, and sanctions screening.
• Develop trade and market surveillance systems to detect manipulation, wash trading, spoofing, and misuse of non-public information.
• Ship user protections such as deposit limits, self-exclusion, and responsible trading controls.
• Build case management and investigation tooling with audit trails and records for Surveillance, Compliance, and Trust & Safety teams.
• Hire and lead senior engineers, set technical direction, and balance user friction against risk.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience and 2+ years of experience managing engineers.
• Experience building trust and safety, integrity, fraud, risk, or surveillance systems at meaningful scale.
• Comfort working in a regulated environment and translating compliance requirements into concrete system designs.
• Strong data-intensive systems skills, including event streams, rules engines, detection pipelines, and real-time versus batch tradeoffs.
• Experience collaborating daily with policy, investigations, compliance, and other non-engineering partners.

Nice to have

• Experience at an exchange, broker, or crypto platform with trade surveillance or AML obligations.
• Familiarity with surveillance and compliance vendors, including trade surveillance platforms, KYC providers, or blockchain analytics.
• Applied machine learning or anomaly detection experience for fraud or abuse.
• Experience across both centralized and on-chain products.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary, equity, and benefits.
• Unlimited paid time off.
• Health, vision, and dental coverage.
• 401(k) match.
• Full hardware setup, including a new MacBook Pro, large display, and accessories.