# Trading Systems Engineer

**Company:** [Kalshi](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/kalshi)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $180k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Go, Rust, C++, Postgres, AWS, Amazon Rds, Amazon Ecs, Kafka, Event-Driven Systems, Concurrent Programming, Order Management Systems, APIs
**Posted:** 2026-09-02

> Build and maintain high-performance backend trading infrastructure, including order-management systems and event-driven APIs. The role requires at least three years of backend engineering experience, concurrent programming expertise, relational database proficiency, AWS familiarity, and Go, Rust, or C++ skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build and maintain backend infrastructure supporting affiliated trading operations across Kalshi markets.
- Develop trading systems, including order-management functionality.
- Build robust, high-performance, event-driven systems and APIs.
- Write concurrent code and help shape the role and trading activity as the organization grows.

## Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional backend engineering experience.
- Direct experience building trading systems, including order management.
- Experience developing robust, high-performance, event-driven systems and APIs.
- Experience writing concurrent code.
- Strong proficiency with relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
- Familiarity with AWS, especially Amazon RDS and Amazon ECS.
- Proficiency in at least one of Go, Rust, or C++.

## Nice-to-haves
- Familiarity with stream processing and Kafka.
- Familiarity with frontend development.
- Familiarity with machine learning, neural networks, or generative AI, including large language models.
- Experience trading on Kalshi or other prediction markets.

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