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Software Engineer, Trading Platform

Kalshi · New York Office · On-site

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About Kalshi

Backed by Sequoia, Y Combinator and a16z.

About the role

Order matching and trade execution algorithms and data structures High guarantee and availability clearing systems, including margining, collateral management, and banking integrations

What they're looking for

  • 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
More about this 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. 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.

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 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...

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