Join Kalshi as a Trading Systems Engineer to build and maintain the infrastructure for trading operations in a fast-growing financial market.
Posted by employer 2 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 2 months ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Requirements
- Experience
- 3+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Trading Systems Engineer at Kalshi focuses on developing and maintaining the backend infrastructure that supports trading operations across various market categories. Key skills include experience with trading systems, high-performance event-driven architectures, and proficiency in languages like Golang, Rust, or C++. This position is ideal for mid-level engineers with a strong background in backend development and a passion for financial markets, particularly those interested in shaping the future of prediction markets.
Joblaze insights
Quick facts
- How much experience is required?
- At least 3 years of relevant experience for this Trading Systems Engineer (Affiliated Trading) role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, C++, Golang, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Rust.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Kalshi targets mid-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Trading Systems Engineer (Affiliated Trading) role at Kalshi.
From the original posting
Our vision: well… build the largest financial market on the planet.
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.
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