Real-Time Trading Systems Engineer

Kalpa Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Kalpa Group is seeking a talented engineer to design and operate the systems that connect our quantitative strategies to live markets. You will own critical components end‑to‑end, ensuring correctness, low latency, and reliable uptime in production environments.

You will collaborate with researchers and engineers to build real-time services, integrate with exchanges, and implement observability, incident response, and robust deployment practices under pressure.

Qualifications

• 3–7 years of experience building production distributed systems.
• Strong Python plus a systems-level language (C++, Rust, or Go).
• Proven track record owning real-time, production-grade services.
• Solid understanding of event-driven and distributed system design.
• Operational experience: observability, debugging under pressure, incident response.
• Sharp communicator, analytical, detail-oriented.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the trading infrastructure that puts the firm's strategies into live markets.
• Build and run real-time services where correctness and uptime are non-negotiable.
• Integrate with external exchanges, venues, and counterparties.
• Take ownership of production operations — observability, alerting, and incident response.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Observability

Incident response

Communication

Tools

C++

Rust

Go

Python

Job description

Kalpa Group is seeking a talented engineer to design and operate the systems that connect our quantitative strategies to live markets. You will own critical components end‑to‑end, ensuring correctness, low latency, and reliable uptime in production environments.

You will collaborate with researchers and engineers to build real-time services, integrate with exchanges, and implement observability, incident response, and robust deployment practices under pressure.