Trading Systems Engineer (Kalshi Trading LLC)

New York City Officefull timeOn Site

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$200k–$300k

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Kalshi Trading Systems Engineer at Kalshi Trading LLC to build and maintain backend infrastructure for trading operations. The role involves building robust, high-performance event-driven systems and APIs with a focus on concurrency and relational databases.

Responsibilities

Our vision: well... build the largest financial market on the planet.
Our mission: bring more truth to the world through the power of markets.
At least 3 years of professional experience as a backend engineer
Experience directly building trading systems including order management
Experience building robust high performance event-driven systems and APIs
Experience writing concurrent code

Qualification

Proficiency in one ofFamiliarity with frontend developmentFamiliarity with machine learning

Required

Very comfortable with relational databases (e.g. Postgres)
Familiarity with the AWS stack (especially RDS and ECS)
Proficiency in one of: Golang, Rust, C++
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

Preferred

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

Benefits

Vision
Equity/RSU

Company

Kalshi

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