Senior Analytics Engineer

Polymarket

$135K — $160K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in analytics engineering or a similar role with a proven track record in owning modeling layers.
  • Expert SQL skills for writing and optimizing complex queries on high-volume datasets.
  • Hands-on experience with dbt, Airflow, or equivalent orchestration tools, along with modern cloud data warehouses like Databricks or Snowflake.
  • Strong understanding of dimensional modeling and metric design, knowing when to denormalize data.
  • Proficiency with BI tools like Hex or Looker, focused on self-service capabilities.
  • Software engineering fundamentals for code reviews and project maintenance.
  • Genuine interest in the business context behind metrics, with adaptability to a fast-changing environment.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build dbt models for transforming raw trading and application data into trusted datasets.
  • Define core metrics to ensure consistency across dashboards and conversations.
  • Collaborate with data engineers on performance and incremental models within the data warehouse.
  • Create and maintain self-serve reporting dashboards for various teams.
  • Translate open-ended stakeholder questions into sustainable models.
  • Implement testing and monitoring procedures to ensure data quality.
  • Model new products in real time as business needs evolve.
  • Document models comprehensively for team-wide accessibility.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary & equity.
  • Unlimited PTO.
  • Full health, vision, & dental coverage.
  • 401k match.
  • New MacBook Pro and other hardware accessories.
Full Job Description
About the Role

Polymarket is looking for a Senior Analytics Engineer to own the modeling layer that sits between our raw data and the decisions the business makes with it. You'll join a small, high-ownership team, working alongside our data engineers and data scientists to turn raw trading and application data into the clean, well-defined models and metrics that everyone from growth to finance to market operations builds on.

This is a role for someone who cares as much about whether a number is right as whether the query is fast. You'll define what our core metrics mean, build the models that produce them, and make sure the people who depend on them can answer their own questions without a data person in the loop. And you'll do it in a fast-moving environment where new products launch constantly and the business logic behind them changes just as often.

What You'll Do
  • Design and build the dbt models that turn raw platform, on-chain / off-chain trading activity, and third-party data into trusted, well-documented datasets
  • Own the definitions of our core metrics including volume, traders, retention, acquisition cost, revenue, etc, so that a number means the same thing in every dashboard and every conversation
  • Partner closely with data engineers on the warehouse layer, including materialized views, incremental models, query performance, and cost
  • Build and maintain reporting in homegrown Vercel dashboards and Hex that growth, marketing, finance, and markets teams can use self-serve insights
  • Work directly with stakeholders to translate open-ended questions into models that answer them durably, rather than one-off queries
  • Write tests and monitoring at the model layer so data quality issues surface before someone finds them in a board deck
  • Model new products and market types as they launch, keeping the semantic layer in step with a business that changes weekly
  • Write end-to-end documentation that's clear and thorough enough that any engineer or analyst on the team can context-switch into your models without friction


What We're Looking For
  • 7+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data analytics, or a similar role, with production experience owning a modeling layer
  • Expert SQL. You're comfortable reading, writing, and optimizing complex queries against high-volume datasets
  • Hands-on experience with dbt or equivalent, Airflow or other orchestration solutions, and a modern cloud warehouse such as Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, or ClickHouse
  • Strong instincts for dimensional modeling and metric design, including the judgment to know when to denormalize
  • Fluency with BI tooling such as Hex, Looker, or similar, and a bias toward building for self-serve over fulfilling one-off requests
  • Enough software engineering fundamentals to work comfortably in version control, review others' code, and keep a project maintainable
  • Genuine interest in the business. You want to know why a metric moved, not just that your model ran.
  • Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment where business logic changes frequently and you need to keep pace
  • (Plus) Familiarity with on-chain data or blockchain analytics
  • (Plus) Experience in fintech, crypto, prediction markets, or other data-intensive financial products


Benefits
  • Competitive salary & equity
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage
  • 401k match
  • Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories

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