Director of Engineering, Clearing, Payments & Risk

The role

You will lead the teams that move, clear, and protect customer funds on Polymarket US. You will own clearing, payments, and risk systems and lead engineering for the Futures Commission Merchant build.

What you will do

• Lead engineering for the FCM program end to end including customer onboarding, fund segregation, margin, and clearinghouse integration.
• Own the clearing engine and post-trade path including settlement, position management, reconciliation, and the ledger.
• Own payments including deposits and withdrawals across bank, card, and wallet rails and fraud and risk checks.
• Build real time risk controls including pre-trade checks, exposure limits, and monitoring.
• Work daily with Clearing Operations, Treasury, Compliance, Legal, and business leads to turn requirements into systems.
• Hire, grow, and manage a team of senior engineers.
• Set the technical bar, run on-call, and stay close to the code to make design calls.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering
• 2+ years managing engineers
• Track record of shipping financial systems in production
• Direct subject-matter experience with at least two of: FCM operations, clearing and settlement, payments infrastructure
• Working knowledge of the CFTC framework for customer funds
• Strong instincts for money-movement correctness including double-entry ledgers, idempotency, reconciliation, and failure handling
• Comfort leading a 0-to-1 build at startup speed
• Clear written communication with engineers and non-technical partners

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 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

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Unlimited PTO
• Health, vision, and dental coverage
• 401(k) match
• Full hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, large display, and accessories

About the company

Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market. In the US, Polymarket operates a CFTC-regulated exchange (DCM) and clearinghouse (DCO).