3 days ago
Base Salary
$180k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain backend infrastructure for trading operations, including trading systems and order management.
- Develop robust, high-performance, event-driven systems and APIs using concurrent code.
- Troubleshoot program and system malfunctions and restore normal functioning.
- Test, maintain, monitor, install, and coordinate computer programs and systems.
- Design, connect, expand, and modify systems to improve compatibility, information sharing, and workflow.
- Develop and revise system design procedures, test procedures, and quality standards.
- Analyze performance indicators and code issues, then correct errors and write code for desired system actions.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional experience as a backend engineer.
- 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 Golang, Rust, or C++.
- Familiarity with Kafka, frontend development, machine learning, neural networks, generative AI, LLMs, or prediction-market trading is a potential advantage.
Benefits
- NYC base salary range of $180,000–$300,000 per year.
- Broad role ownership and influence in a greenfield environment as Kalshi Trading grows.
- Equal-opportunity and inclusive workplace commitment.
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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.