Backend Engineer (Affiliated Trading)
KalshiNew York, New York, United States
Posted September 23, 2025
150000 - 250000 USD year
Full Time
About the Company
Kalshi is a US federally regulated exchange offering 'event contracts' that allow traders to bet on future outcomes of any event. Backed by Sequoia, Henry Kravis, Charles Schwab, and Y Combinator, Kalshi aims to expand the futures market to include novel risks like economic indicators and legislative outcomes.
Job Description
Kalshi is a rapidly growing financial market platform built on prediction markets, connecting people with the possibility of transforming questions about the future into financial assets. They are seeking a backend engineer to build and maintain the infrastructure supporting their trading operations. The role is flexible and offers a collaborative environment where employees can contribute to the company's growth.
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) and stream processing (Kafka)
- Experience directly building trading systems including order management (potentially)
- Proficiency in Golang
- Familiarity with frontend development
- Familiarity with machine learning, neural networks, or generative AI, including LLMs
Benefits
- Equity
- Competitive salary
- Culture
