Kalshi
Software Engineer, Trading Platform
New York Office
Sponsorship not specified$200k-$280kDetected 197 days ago
Data StructuresAlgorithms
About the role
- 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.
- There is still a lot of green field at Kalshi and a low of it (including entire systems) can be yours.
Responsibilities
- Lead integrations with external market makers, brokers, and hedge funds
- Optimize database access patterns and internal algorithms to improve the performance of our different services
- Design new market structures (e.g., non-binary markets, scalars, futures, etc.)
- If you are passionate about what you do and want to use your talents to support our mission and values, we'd love to hear from you.
- well… build the largest financial market on the planet.
Requirements
- 4+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience planning and leading large projects with long-term impact on a single system or team
Compensation
- $200,000-$280,000 annually, plus equity and benefits.
- 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.
Benefits
- We are committed to our vision of building something big… but also useful: a product that brings more truth through the power of markets.
Company info
- bring more truth to the world through the power of markets.
- 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 to help us build the next generation of financial markets.
- We are building a next-generation financial ecosystem (think NYSE or CME from scratch).
- As part of Kalshi, you will work on various platforms, including core exchange, clearinghouse, API infrastructure, connectivity to brokers and market makers, and others.
- We are a small team, which means your responsibilities scale very rapidly, and your contributions are clear and visible, not marginal.
- Be close to the customer (define features, ship products, iterate)! Even the backend can choose to be close to customers depending on the project
- We believe it is our collective responsibility to uphold these values and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to join us in our mission.
Equal opportunity
- Kalshi is committed to creating a culture of inclusion and belonging, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
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