Geared toward backend engineers comfortable with high performance systems and trading infrastructure, this role suits those with a background in building event-driven systems and a desire to shape a fast-evolving financial market platform in New York.
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Original posting from Kalshi via Ashby
WHAT IS KALSHI?
Kalshi has defined a new category: prediction markets. Kalshi allows people to trade on the outcome of any events and turn any question about the future into a financial asset. Kalshi fought for years and legalized prediction markets in the US for the first time in history, is currently the fastest growing financial market in America, and has thousands of markets across politics, economics, financials, weather, tech, AI, culture and more.
We believe prediction markets have the potential to be the largest financial market because they turn anything into a financial position.
- Our vision: well… build the largest financial market on the planet.
- Our mission: bring more truth to the world through the power of markets.
Our culture is simple: we hire really talented people, work really hard, and enjoy the climb. We are looking for ambitious and exceptional people to join our (relatively small) team to help us build the next generation of financial markets.
Role Roadmap
Kalshi Trading is an affiliated trading entity that operates across all different categories on Kalshi. We are looking for backend engineers who can build and maintain the infrastructure underlying our trading operations. The ideal candidate will have the following attributes:
- Troubleshoot program and system malfunctions to restore normal functioning.
- Test, maintain, and monitor computer programs and systems, including coordinating the installation of computer programs and systems.
- Coordinate and link the computer systems within an organization to increase compatibility so that information can be shared.
- Analyze information processing or computation needs and plan and design computer systems, using techniques such as structured analysis, data modeling, and information engineering.
- Specify inputs accessed by the system and plan the distribution and use of the results.
- Expand or modify systems to serve new purposes or improve work flow.
- Develop, document, and revise system design procedures, test procedures, and quality standards.
- Review and analyze computer printouts and performance indicators to locate code problems, and correct errors by correcting codes.
- Write code to perform desired actions
The ideal candidate will have the following attributes:
- At least 1 year of professional experience in a related technical field, such as computer science, systems analysis, or a closely related discipline
- Experience directly building trading systems including order management
- Experience building robust high performance event-driven systems and APIs
- Experience writing concurrent code
- Very comfortable with relational databases (e.g. Postgres)
- Familiarity with the AWS stack (especially RDS and ECS)
- Proficiency in one of: Golang, Rust, C++
In addition to the above, the ideal candidate will also potentially have one or more of these attributes:
- Familiarity with stream processing (Kafka)
- Familiarity with frontend development
- Familiarity with machine learning, neural networks, or generative AI including LLMs
- Experience trading on Kalshi or other prediction markets
The rest of what the role looks like is up to you - a big part of our approach is that you get to chart your path as we grow and evolve. You will have a lot of influence in shaping what both your role and the activity of Kalshi Trading look like as we grow. There's a lot of green field to conquer, we trust that you'll make a lot of it your own.
NYC PAY TRANSPARENCY DISCLOSURE
Base Salary Range: $180,000–$300,000
This range reflects current market data for this role. Kalshi has minimal hierarchy and broad variance in experience levels within each title; if your compensation expectations exceed this range, we encourage you to reach out — we’re always happy to discuss.
OUR CULTURE
Meritocracy is at our core, and we value people who take ownership and figure (usually hard) things out. We dream big. We love our craft deeply and are proud of what we put out in the world. We are committed to our vision of building something big… but also useful: a product that brings more truth through the power of markets.
Kalshians are Kalshi’s most important asset: we pick Kalshians carefully, so we trust them fully on day 1.
COMMITMENT TO EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
Kalshi is committed to creating a culture of inclusion and belonging, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe it is our collective responsibility to uphold these values and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to join us in our mission. All qualified applicants will be treated with respect and receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, uniform service, veteran status, age, or any other protected characteristic per federal, state, or local law. If you are passionate about what you do and want to use your talents to support our mission and values, we’d love to hear from you.
Source: Kalshi careers (Ashby)