9 months ago
Base Salary
$200k - $280k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop order-matching and trade-execution algorithms and data structures.
- Build high-performance data feeds and trading APIs for clients.
- Develop highly available clearing systems, including margining, collateral management, and banking integrations.
- Lead integrations with external market makers, brokers, and hedge funds.
- Stress test large-scale critical systems for robustness and maintainability.
- Optimize database access patterns and internal algorithms to improve service performance.
- Design new market structures such as non-binary markets, scalars, and futures.
- Define features, ship products, iterate with customers, and make independent engineering decisions.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of software engineering experience.
- Experience planning and leading large, long-term-impact projects affecting a single system or team.
- Strong technical judgment and ability to solve complex engineering problems.
- Solid understanding of relational databases and transactions.
- Experience writing highly concurrent systems.
- History of creating and applying processes and tooling to improve engineering efficiency.
- Excellent task-prioritization judgment and ability to ship quickly with high quality.
- Bonus: experience building financial systems, using FIX API, or working with clearing infrastructure and broker connectivity.
- Bonus: proven experience building large-scale systems and interacting directly with customers.
Benefits
- Equity and benefits are provided.
- The role is based in NYC, with compensation disclosed annually.
- Equal opportunity employment and an inclusive workplace culture.
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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.