3 hours 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.
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About Kalshi
The first US federally regulated exchange where you can trade on the outcome of any event. Kalshi’s historical regulatory approval from the CFTC enables it to offer a new asset class called “event contracts,” which allow traders to take positions on whether a future event will happen or not. Kalshi aims to enable investors to trade on almost anything with economic relevance from Covid numbers to whether a bill will pass in Congress, broadening the historical definition of what a commodity derivative is and paving the way for the futures market to catch up to the novel risks facing the economy today. Kalshi is backed by Sequoia, Henry Kravis, Charles Schwab, and Y Combinator.