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Kalshi · 3 months ago

Backend Engineer (Affiliated Trading)

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
seniorityMid Level
money$150K/yr - $250K/yr
date3+ years exp

Kalshi is a pioneering company in the prediction markets sector, allowing individuals to trade on the outcomes of various events. They are seeking a Backend Engineer to build and maintain the infrastructure for their trading operations, requiring expertise in high-performance systems and relational databases.

FinanceFinancial ExchangesFinancial ServicesFinTechInternetPrediction MarketsPredictive Analytics
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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Build and maintain the infrastructure underlying trading operations
Develop robust high performance event-driven systems and APIs
Write concurrent code and work with relational databases (e.g. Postgres)
Familiarity with the AWS stack (especially RDS and ECS)
Work with stream processing (Kafka)
Potentially build trading systems including order management

Qualification

Backend engineeringEvent-driven systemsRelational databasesConcurrent codeAWS stackStream processingTrading systemsGolangFrontend developmentMachine learningTrading experience

Required

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)

Preferred

Experience directly building trading systems including order management
Proficiency in Golang
Familiarity with frontend development
Familiarity with machine learning, neural networks, or generative AI including LLMs
Experience trading on Kalshi or other prediction markets

Benefits

Equity
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Company

Kalshi

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Kalshi is a regulated prediction market where users trade event-based contracts tied to real-world outcomes.
dateFounded in 2018
location
New York, New York, USA
people-size51-200 employees
web-link
https://kalshi.com

H1B Sponsorship

Kalshi has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (1)
2023 (1)
2022 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$1.65B
Key Investors
ParadigmSequoia CapitalY Combinator
2025-11-20Series E· $1B
2025-10-10Series D· $300M
2025-09-02Secondary Market· $2M

Leadership Team

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Tarek Mansour
Co-founder and CEO
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John Wang
Head of Crypto
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