Job 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
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