Kalshi · 3 months ago
Quantitative Developer (Affiliated Trading)
New York, New York, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$150K/yr - $250K/yrKalshi is defining a new category of prediction markets, allowing people to trade on the outcomes of various events. They are seeking a Quantitative Developer to build and deploy trading systems, statistical forecasting models, and manage trading activities within their rapidly growing market.
FinanceFinancial ExchangesFinancial ServicesFinTechInternetPrediction MarketsPredictive Analytics
Responsibilities
Building and deploying autonomous systems, especially trading systems
Low latency programming for trading applications
Setting up automated data pipelines and ingesting datasets from a variety of fields
Infrastructure management (AWS stack, SQL databases)
Accurate bookkeeping or other financial operations experience
Building and deploying statistical forecasting models
Machine learning, neural networks, or generative AI including LLMs
Data collection via APIs or web scraping
Proven track record trading on Kalshi or other prediction markets: consistently positive P&L, substantial volume traded on an ongoing basis, experience making large trades and holding large positions, familiarity with the Kalshi API or other trading APIs, experience with automated liquidity provision and position management
Sports betting on traditional bookmakers
Trading other financial instruments, such as derivatives or cryptocurrencies
Poker, chess, e-sports, or other competitive games played at a high level
Qualification
Required
building and deploying autonomous systems, especially trading systems
low latency programming for trading applications
setting up automated data pipelines and ingesting datasets from a variety of fields
infrastructure management (AWS stack, SQL databases)
accurate bookkeeping or other financial operations experience
building and deploying statistical forecasting models
machine learning, neural networks, or generative AI including LLMs
data collection via APIs or web scraping
domain expertise in one or more of the categories on Kalshi, such as sports, crypto, financials, economics, weather
Proven track record trading on Kalshi or other prediction markets
consistently positive P&L
substantial volume traded on an ongoing basis
experience making large trades and holding large positions
familiarity with the Kalshi API or other trading APIs
experience with automated liquidity provision and position management
sports betting on traditional bookmakers
trading other financial instruments, such as derivatives or cryptocurrencies
poker, chess, e-sports, or other competitive games played at a high level
Benefits
Equity
Benefits
Company
Kalshi
Kalshi is a regulated prediction market where users trade event-based contracts tied to real-world outcomes.
Founded in 2018
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (1)
2023 (1)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.65BKey Investors
ParadigmSequoia CapitalY Combinator
2025-11-20Series E· $1B
2025-10-10Series D· $300M
2025-09-02Secondary Market· $2M
Leadership Team
Tarek Mansour
Co-founder and CEO
J
John Wang
Head of Crypto
Recent News
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