Frontend Engineer, Kalshi
$100-180k
+ Equity.
Trading platform for future event outcomes
Open for applications
Trading platform for future event outcomes
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$100-180k
+ Equity.
21-100 employees
Company mission
To allow people to capitalize on their opinions and hedge risks that relate to their everyday lives.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of React experience and extensive TypeScript experience
- Nice to haves: NextJS, and backend knowledge
- Attention to detail and good UI/UX intuition
What the job involves
- We're on a long journey in uncharted territories and are looking for passionate and outlier members excited to embark on this voyage towards building the future of the financial system
- As a Frontend Engineer, you'll be part of the SWAT team in charge of building the trading experience and user-facing platform of Kalshi
- You won't just implement specifications, but instead, get to be part of the product development cycle and conceive entire features before developing
- You'll engage with our user base and use your product intuition to build something they love
- We're scaling, which means your role will evolve and grow with the company
- Building new features and flows across our web application
- Writing and maintaining frontend code to drive the product features
- Iterating with designers to ensure an impeccable visual flow and continuity on the platform
- Weighing customer feedback, business needs, and long-term goals to make product decisions
- Working with marketing and business development teams to increase user engagement and satisfaction
- The rest of what the role looks like is up to you - a big part of our approach is that you get to chart your path as we grow and evolve
- There's a lot of green field to conquer, we trust that you'll make a lot of it your own
Our take
Despite there being a broad choice of investment models, traders have not traditionally been able to invest in the outcomes of future events. Kalshi, as the first federally regulated exchange where users can invest, trade and essentially "bet" on future outcomes, sets out to change this.
The company has launched a unique asset class called "event contracts", where investors can buy simple yes or no contracts based on whether an event will happen or not. Since gaining federal regulation, Kalshi has begun adding expertise in key areas, hiring Google’s Phil Bogle as Director of Engineering and former Nadex CEO Timothy McDermott to the Board of Directors.
The key to the company's future will be maintaining trust with users through transparency, particularly on how more complex or ongoing ‘wagers’ are settled. The team has been backed with funding from Sequoia Capital, who have most likely gauged how valuable the opinion data collected on the site could be to market and political researchers - although the CFTC's reluctance to approve betting on US elections has presented a block in the road for Kalshi's plans to add "the outcome of congressional elections" to its asset options.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Feb 2021
$30m
SERIES A
Mar 2019
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $30.2m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- We are a group of people who work hard and get things done
- Meritocracy is at our core, and we value people who take ownership and figure (usually hard) things out
- We think of Kalshi as a family bound together by our mission: we believe that this is the best (and most fun!) way to work
Company HQ
SoHo, New York, NY
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Leadership
Luana Lopes Lara
(Co-Founder)Studied Computer Science at MIT. Researcher at MIT in the Media Lab and later the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Worked as a Quantitative Trader at Five Rings Capital and Citadel Securities. Most recently she was a Researcher at the MIT Brain and Cognitive Science Centre.
Tarek Mansour
(Co-Founder)Studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Started off working in finance, as an Analyst at Audi Capital and Goldman Sachs. Was a Quantitative Trader twice at Five Rings Capital and Citadel Securities.
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