Trading Systems Engineer (Kalshi Trading LLC)
Kalshi · New York, New York, United States
Posted 13 days ago · $200,000 to $300,000
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 13 days Kalshi's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 82% of Kalshi's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Kalshi
- high 27 stale, 0 reposted of 28 open
- Hiring momentum
- 29 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Kalshi's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Kalshi.
About this role
As a Trading Systems Engineer at Kalshi, you will be responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure that supports trading operations. Your role will involve developing high-performance event-driven systems and APIs, writing concurrent code, and working with relational databases. You will have the opportunity to shape your role and influence the direction of Kalshi Trading as the company grows.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Kalshi as an employer.
What you need
- At least 3 years of professional experience as a backend engineer
- Experience directly building trading systems including order management
- Experience building robust high performance event-driven systems and APIs
- Experience writing concurrent code
- Very comfortable with relational databases (e.g. Postgres)
- Familiarity with the AWS stack (especially RDS and ECS)
Nice to have
- Familiarity with stream processing (Kafka)
- Familiarity with frontend development
- Familiarity with machine learning, neural networks, or generative AI including LLMs
- Experience trading on Kalshi or other prediction markets
What you get
- Salary Range: $200,000 to $300,000 annually plus equity and benefits
Worth weighing
- Fast-growing company with a relatively small team
- Role allows for significant influence and autonomy
- No specific mention of work-life balance or remote work options
Summarised from Kalshi's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Kalshi on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.