Kalshi
Trading Systems Engineer (Affiliated Trading)
$180K–$300K
New York Office · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026
- Experience
- At least 3 years of professional experience as a backend engineer.
About the job
Build and maintain backend infrastructure and trading systems for Kalshi Trading’s operations.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain infrastructure underlying trading operations.
- Build trading systems, including order management.
- Develop robust, high-performance event-driven systems and APIs.
What they ask for
- Experience directly building trading systems, including order management.
- Experience building robust, high-performance event-driven systems and APIs.
- Experience writing concurrent code.
- Comfort with relational databases and familiarity with AWS; proficiency in one of Golang, Rust, or C++.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with stream processing (Kafka), frontend development, or machine learning, neural networks, or generative AI including LLMs.
- Experience trading on Kalshi or other prediction markets.
Pay
$180K – $300K (base salary)
Tools
Postgres, AWS, RDS, ECS, Golang, Rust, C++, Kafka
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