# Senior Web Engineer, Perps

**Company:** [Polymarket](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/polymarket)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Frontend Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** React, Next.js, TypeScript, WebSockets, Streaming Apis, State Management, Data Fetching, Caching, Frontend Performance, Frontend Reliability, API Design, Real-Time Market Data, Observability, Error Reporting, AI Tools
**Posted:** 2026-08-13

> Owns the frontend of a perpetual futures trading product, building responsive interfaces for order entry, positions, market data, and related workflows. Requires 3–5+ years of frontend experience with React, Next.js, TypeScript, real-time data, and financial product UIs.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own and ship complex trading UI features end-to-end, including order books, position panels, trade history, funding rates, liquidation displays, and related interfaces.
- Work with backend engineers to design APIs, reason through real-time data flows, and build reliable trading experiences on complex exchange systems.
- Partner with QA, technical program management, product, and design teams to clarify requirements, manage launches, and improve product quality.
- Monitor dashboards, alerts, and user reports; respond to issues and work with backend and infrastructure teams during incidents to isolate root causes and implement fixes.
- Design and implement responsive, accurate UI for live market data, streaming order books, and fast-moving prices.
- Improve logs, metrics, alerts, dashboards, and error reporting for frontend performance visibility.
- Identify technical debt, propose pragmatic refactors, and contribute to frontend architecture and system design discussions.

## Requirements
- 3–5+ years of frontend web engineering experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with React, Next.js, TypeScript, and modern frontend development.
- Experience building trading, exchange, or financial product UIs.
- Strong frontend system design skills across state management, data fetching, caching, performance, reliability, and maintainability.
- Experience with real-time data, including WebSockets, streaming APIs, or live market feeds.
- Strong debugging skills and experience responding to production issues.
- Ability to work with backend engineers on APIs, data contracts, failure modes, and system behavior.
- High agency and ability to drive work to completion.
- Clear communication during planning, launches, bugs, and incidents.

## Nice to Have
- Direct experience building UI for a perpetuals exchange or derivatives trading product.
- Frontend performance specialization, particularly around real-time data rendering.
- Experience in crypto, Web3, or adjacent financial infrastructure.
- Experience improving frontend observability, alerting, or reliability practices.
- Practical use of AI tools to improve engineering productivity.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Full health, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k) match.
- Hardware setup including a new MacBook Pro, large display, and accessories.

## Similar jobs

- [Senior UI Engineer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/479baad2-c8e7-4c89-9260-9794a301c10d) - Atomicmachines - Emeryville, CA - $165k – $220k/yr
- [Lead Software Engineer, Frontend/Web App](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/7da8aa5f-0296-427e-90d7-63e8aec97e38) - Beacon AI - San Carlos, CA - $185k – $260k/yr
- [Senior Frontend Engineer, Conversational & Gen UI](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/ff41d130-2b8d-464f-a8c1-b8f993a0422a) - Farther Finance - New York, NY
- [Senior Frontend Software Engineer - Growth](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/feba07c3-c2a4-45b0-81b0-7dfbec521115) - Clickhouse - Remote - $185k – $230k/yr
- [Senior Web Engineer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/1c3526c8-1197-4fbd-b4dd-c61551ebbbe7) - Sleeper - San Francisco, CA - $160k – $220k/yr

**Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/dd709a92-bd26-42ff-9cfd-329b19fb15b0
**Canonical:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/dd709a92-bd26-42ff-9cfd-329b19fb15b0