Trading Systems Engineer — Low-Latency Market Backend

Precision Labs; Northern, New York (KY, NY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Kalshi is seeking experienced backend engineers to design, build and maintain the core trading infrastructure that powers our prediction markets. You will shape high performance, low latency systems that handle order management, event streams and robust APIs across our platform.

Ideal candidates have at least 3 years of professional backend experience, strong proficiency in Go, Rust or C++, familiarity with PostgreSQL and AWS (RDS/ECS), and a track record of writing concurrent, scalable code.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional backend development experience.
• Experience building trading systems including order management.
• Proficiency with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and AWS (RDS/ECS).
• Proficiency in one of Golang, Rust or C++.
• Experience with concurrent programming and high-performance APIs.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the core trading infrastructure powering prediction markets.
• Develop robust, low-latency services and APIs for order handling and market data streams.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ship scalable backend systems.

Skills

Backend engineering

Order management

Event-driven systems

Concurrent programming

PostgreSQL

AWS (RDS/ECS)

Golang

Rust

C++

Job description

Kalshi is seeking experienced backend engineers to design, build and maintain the core trading infrastructure that powers our prediction markets. You will shape high performance, low latency systems that handle order management, event streams and robust APIs across our platform.

Ideal candidates have at least 3 years of professional backend experience, strong proficiency in Go, Rust or C++, familiarity with PostgreSQL and AWS (RDS/ECS), and a track record of writing concurrent, scalable code.