Trading Systems Engineer (Kalshi Trading LLC)

The role

Backend engineers will build and maintain the infrastructure underlying trading operations. This role involves building trading systems including 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)
• At least 3 years of experience with the AWS stack (especially RDS and ECS)
• Proficiency in one of: Golang, Rust, C++
• A postgraduate degree in computer science, software engineering, or related fields

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

Benefits

• equity
• benefits

About the company

Kalshi has defined a new category of prediction markets. The company allows people to trade on the outcome of any events and turn any question about the future into a financial asset.