Trading Systems Analyst

What Is Kalshi?

Kalshi has defined a new category: prediction markets. Kalshi allows people to trade on the outcome of any events and turn any question about the future into a financial asset. Kalshi fought for years and legalized prediction markets in the US for the first time in history, is currently the fastest growing financial market in America, and has thousands of markets across politics, economics, financials, weather, tech, AI, culture and more.

We believe prediction markets have the potential to be the largest financial market because they turn anything into a financial position.

• Our vision: well… build the largest financial market on the planet.
• Our mission: bring more truth to the world through the power of markets.

Role Roadmap

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:

• Troubleshoot program and system malfunctions to restore normal functioning.
• Test, maintain, and monitor computer programs and systems, including coordinating the installation of computer programs and systems.
• Coordinate and link the computer systems within an organization to increase compatibility so that information can be shared.
• Analyze information processing or computation needs and plan and design computer systems, using techniques such as structured analysis, data modeling, and information engineering.
• Specify inputs accessed by the system and plan the distribution and use of the results.
• Expand or modify systems to serve new purposes or improve work flow.
• Develop, document, and revise system design procedures, test procedures, and quality standards.
• Review and analyze computer printouts and performance indicators to locate code problems, and correct errors by correcting codes.
• Write code to perform desired actions

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

Additional information

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.

Base Salary Range: $180,000-$300,000

This range reflects current market data for this role. Kalshi has minimal hierarchy and broad variance in experience levels within each title; if your compensation expectations exceed this range, we encourage you to reach out - we’re always happy to discuss.