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Backend Engineer (Affiliated Trading)

Kalshi

$150,000 - $250,000
Sep 23, 2025
New York, NY, US • Remote, US
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Kalshi is defining a new category of prediction markets and is looking for backend engineers to build and maintain the infrastructure underlying their trading operations to help them build the next generation of financial markets.

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)
  • Proficiency in Golang

Responsibilities

  • build and maintain the infrastructure underlying our trading operations
  • Experience building robust high performance event-driven systems and APIs
  • 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
  • Familiarity with frontend development

Other

  • Our culture is simple: we hire really talented people, work really hard, and enjoy the climb.
  • We are looking for ambitious and exceptional people to join our (relatively small) team
  • Meritocracy is at our core, and we value people who take ownership and figure (usually hard) things out.
  • We dream big.
  • Kalshians are Kalshi’s most important asset: we pick Kalshians carefully, so we trust them fully on day 1.