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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.
NYC Pay Transparency Disclosure:

Salary Range: $200,000 to $300,000 annually plus equity and benefits.

This salary range is based on the current available market data and represents the expected salary range for this role. Kalshi has minimal hierarchy and few titles, but a broad range of experience is represented within roles. Should you have compensation expectations that exceed these bands, we'd love to hear from you and would welcome you to reach out to discuss further.

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