2 months ago
Base Salary
$180k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain backend infrastructure underlying Kalshi Trading’s operations.
- Build trading systems, including order management systems.
- Develop robust, high-performance event-driven systems and APIs.
- Write concurrent code and work with relational databases and AWS infrastructure.
- Help shape the role and the activities of Kalshi Trading as the organization grows.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional backend engineering experience.
- Direct experience building trading systems, including order management.
- Experience building robust, high-performance event-driven systems and APIs.
- Experience writing concurrent code.
- Strong familiarity with relational databases such as Postgres.
- Familiarity with the AWS stack, especially RDS and ECS.
- Proficiency in at least one of Golang, Rust, or C++.
- Additional valued experience includes Kafka stream processing, frontend development, machine learning, neural networks, generative AI including LLMs, or trading on Kalshi or other prediction markets.
Benefits
- Significant autonomy and influence in shaping the role and Kalshi Trading’s activities.
- Opportunity to work on greenfield infrastructure for a rapidly growing prediction-market business.
- Inclusive culture and equal employment opportunity.
Tech Stack
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About Kalshi
Kalshi operates a CFTC‑regulated exchange where retail and professional traders buy and sell event contracts tied to economic, political, and other measurable outcomes. The company earns exchange and transaction fees from trading activity on its platform. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in New York, it is the first federally regulated U.S. exchange purpose‑built for event contracts.