Backend Engineer (Affiliated Trading)

Kalshi
New York, NY
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
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