Trading Systems Engineer (Affiliated Trading)

The role

Backend engineers will build and maintain the infrastructure underlying trading operations for Kalshi Trading. The role involves building trading systems, order management, and high performance event-driven systems and APIs.

What you will do

• Build and maintain the infrastructure underlying trading operations
• Build trading systems including order management
• Build robust high performance event-driven systems and APIs
• Write concurrent code

Required qualifications

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

Nice to have

• 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

About the company

Kalshi is a prediction market that allows people to trade on the outcome of any events. The company aims to build the largest financial market on the planet.