Engineering Manager (Fintech)

Location: On-site in New York, United States

Base salary: $350,000–$500,000 annually, plus equity and benefits

Company

Polymarket operates a prediction market and a CFTC-regulated US exchange and clearinghouse, building infrastructure for event contracts and regulated financial products.

What you will do

• Lead the FCM program end to end, including customer onboarding, account structures, customer-fund segregation, margin and collateral, and integration with the clearinghouse.
• Own the clearing engine and post-trade systems for settlement, position and balance management, reconciliation, and the underlying ledger.
• Own payment flows across bank, card, and wallet rails, including authorization fraud and risk checks, processors, and banking partners.
• Build real-time risk controls, including pre-trade and pre-funding checks, exposure limits, and operational monitoring.
• Work with Clearing Operations, Treasury, Compliance, Legal, and DCO/FCM business leads to turn regulatory and operational requirements into auditable systems.
• Hire, develop, and manage senior engineers; set the technical bar, run on-call, and remain involved in key design decisions.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience and 2+ years managing engineers, with a record of shipping financial systems in production.
• Direct subject-matter experience in at least two of FCM operations, clearing and settlement, or payments infrastructure.
• Experience ideally gained at an FCM, futures or crypto derivatives exchange, broker-dealer, or payments company.
• Working knowledge of the CFTC framework for customer funds, including segregation, margining, daily reconciliation and reporting, and regulatory system expectations.
• Strong understanding of money-movement correctness, including double-entry ledgers, idempotency, reconciliation, and failure handling across external partners.
• Ability to lead a 0-to-1 build at startup speed while maintaining the controls required by a regulated business.
• Clear written communication with engineers and non-technical partners in operations, finance, and compliance.

Nice to have

• Experience standing up a new FCM, DCO, or derivatives clearing member, or taking one through a regulatory review.
• Background with margin methodologies such as SPAN-style models or collateral management.
• Experience with stablecoin or on-chain settlement rails alongside traditional banking rails.
• Hands-on experience in Go or another systems language used for high-throughput services.

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.