Backend Engineer, Affiliated Trading

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September 24

🗽 New York – Remote

Although this job is listed in New York, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $150k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Kalshi

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Finance • Fintech

Kalshi is an online platform that allows users to trade directly on the outcome of events. As a financial exchange, Kalshi enables individuals to trade on events such as political elections, weather predictions, and economic indicators. The platform offers a unique way for individuals to hedge risks or speculate on future events, following regulations to ensure a safe and legal trading environment.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2020

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

💰 $30M Series A on 2021-02

📋 Description

• Build and maintain the infrastructure underlying Kalshi Trading's trading operations • Develop robust, high-performance event-driven systems and APIs • Work with relational databases (Postgres) and write concurrent code • Operate and integrate with AWS services (RDS, ECS) and stream processing (Kafka) • Potentially design or improve order management and trading systems • Shape and influence the role and the direction of Kalshi Trading's engineering efforts • Collaborate within a small team on greenfield projects and take ownership of deliverables

🎯 Requirements

• At least 3 years of professional experience as a backend engineer • Experience building robust high performance event-driven systems and APIs • Very comfortable with relational databases (e.g. Postgres) • Experience writing concurrent code • Familiarity with the AWS stack (especially RDS and ECS) • Familiarity with stream processing (Kafka) • Experience directly building trading systems including order management (preferred) • Proficiency in Golang (preferred) • Familiarity with frontend development (preferred) • Familiarity with machine learning, neural networks, or generative AI including LLMs (preferred) • Experience trading on Kalshi or other prediction markets (preferred)

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Benefits