Trading Systems Engineer (Kalshi Trading LLC)

Kalshi$200K — $300K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years as a backend engineer
  • Experience building trading systems and order management
  • Proven ability in creating high-performance event-driven systems and APIs
  • Strong skills in writing concurrent code
  • Expertise in relational databases (e.g., Postgres)
  • Familiarity with AWS technologies like RDS and ECS
  • Proficiency in Golang, Rust, or C++

Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain backend infrastructure for trading operations
  • Develop and optimize APIs for trading systems
  • Implement robust event-driven architectures
  • Write and maintain concurrent code for performance efficiency
  • Collaborate with teams to influence product development
  • Explore opportunities in shaping new role directions
  • Contribute to the evolving structure of Kalshi Trading

Benefits

  • Equity options available
  • Flexible work environment
  • Creative autonomy in role development
  • Opportunity to influence trading operations
  • Dynamic team and minimal hierarchy structure
Full Job Description
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:

  • 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++

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:

Salary Range: $200,000 to $300,000 annually plus equity and benefits.

This salary range is based on the current available market data and represents the expected salary range for this role. Kalshi has minimal hierarchy and few titles, but a broad range of experience is represented within roles. Should you have compensation expectations that exceed these bands, we'd love to hear from you and would welcome you to reach out to discuss further.

About Kalshi

Kalshi is a financial services company that offers a platform for trading on the outcome of events. The company was founded in 2020 by Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara. Kalshi is headquartered in New York City and is regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The platform allows users to trade on the outcome of events such as elections, sports games, and other events. Kalshi aims to provide a transparent and fair trading experience for its users.
Learn more about Kalshi
Size
50 employees
Industry
Founded
2018

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