Polymarket opens perpetual futures engineering and product roles
Polymarket posted multiple engineering and product roles in mid-June 2026 to build a perpetual futures platform. A June 16 listing sought Senior Backend Engineers to own core infrastructure for leveraged, continuously-settled derivatives markets. A June 18 posting advertised a Product Lead, Perps role, describing perpetual futures as crypto's dominant trading primitive and targeting serious traders. A June 19 Indeed listing added a senior API engineer position in San Francisco. The hires would expand Polymarket beyond binary event contracts into perpetual futures, a product category that has rapidly gained traction among U.S.-regulated platforms.
Polymarket must ship its perpetual futures product while Kalshi's $5.5 billion two-week launch volume still defines the competitive benchmark. Any delay cedes retail crypto traders to Kalshi and Robinhood, both of which already operate leveraged derivatives in the U.S.
Polymarket becomes the second CFTC-registered platform to pursue perpetual futures after Kalshi's record-shattering $5.5 billion launch, raising the stakes for derivative product development among onshore venues.