Trade Surveillance Analyst
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Polymarket · NYPrepare for this interview
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About the role
Polymarket is building next-generation event market infrastructure with a focus on trust, transparency, and market integrity. We're hiring a Trade Surveillance Analyst to help monitor trading activity, investigate suspicious behavior, and strengthen our exchange surveillance program.
Responsibilities
- Monitor trading activity across event markets in real time and through post-trade reviews to identify potential market abuse
- Use surveillance tools and dashboards to detect anomalies, flag risk, and escalate concerns
- Investigate alerts and unusual trading patterns (e.g., wash trading, manipulative order behavior)
- Clearly document surveillance reviews and support internal escalations as needed
- Support the enforcement of KYC/AML procedures and transaction monitoring
- Partner closely with Legal, Risk, and Technology teams to improve surveillance systems and compliance workflows
Requirements
- Strong analytical skills and exceptional attention to detail
- High integrity, strong communication, and sound judgment under pressure
- Comfort working with trading data and identifying behavioral patterns
- Willingness to work overnight shifts and weekends
- Familiarity with futures, event markets, and trading concepts
- Experience in compliance, risk, investigations, or exchange operations
- Proficiency in Excel / Google Sheets (SQL or Python is a plus)
- Familiarity with trade surveillance platforms
- Experience at a proprietary trading firm, Futures Commission Merchant, or broker-dealer
Benefits
Additional Information
About Polymarket Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market platform. We enable individuals to express views on real-world events by trading on outcomes across politics, economics, sports, culture, and current affairs. Built as a peer-to-peer marketplace with no centralized "house," Polymarket aggregates diverse opinions into transparent, market-based probabilities that reflect collective expectations about the future. We're growing fast - both in terms of volume ($21B traded in 2025) and adoption as an alternative news source. Our ambition is to become a ubiquitous beacon of truth in global media and we need your help adding fuel to the fire.
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