Kalshi is hiring a
Backend Engineer

Summary

The job is for a software engineer at Kalshi, a company offering event contracts as a new asset class. The role involves working on various platforms including core exchange, clearinghouse, API infrastructure, and more. The candidate should have 4+ years of software engineering experience, strong technical skills, and the ability to lead large projects.

Requirements

• 4+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience planning and leading large projects with long-term impact on a single system or team
• Strong technical grasp and ability to tackle complex engineering problems that deliver results
• Solid understanding of relational databases and transactions
• Familiar with writing highly concurrent systems
• History of creating and applying new processes and tooling to increase engineering efficiency
• Excellent judgment on task prioritizations
• Growth mindset, with a high slope and eagerness to learn
• Love of the craft: you genuinely care and put your all into your work

Responsibilities

Work on various platforms including core exchange, clearinghouse, API infrastructure, connectivity to brokers and market makers, etc

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building financial systems, FIX API, clearing infrastructure, broker connectivity, etc
• Proven experience building large-scale systems
• Like to interact directly with customers

Benefits

Salary Range: $100,000 to $200,000 annually plus equity and benefits