Infrastructure Engineer, Kalshi
$100-180k
Plus equity
Trading platform for future event outcomes
Job no longer available
Trading platform for future event outcomes
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$100-180k
Plus 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
- 3+ years of software engineering experience
- Strong aspiration to learn and communication skills
- Lead with experience planning and driving large projects with long-term impact on a single system or team
- Strong technical grasp and excellent judgment on task prioritizations
- Able to tackle complex engineering problems that deliver results
- History of creating and applying new processes and tooling to increase engineering efficiency
- Strong familiarity with AWS, k8s, terraform, RDS, Kafka, load balancing, etc
- BS Degree or higher in Computer Science/Engineering
Desirable
- Proven experience building deployment systems in k8s
- Proven experience building dev/test environments in k8s
- Proven experience building dynamic configuration systems
What the job involves
- As an infra engineer, you will help build and scale both the core exchange and infra at Kalshi
- Provide the infrastructure to automate and standardize how software is built, versioned and deployed to target environments
- Provide infrastructure and tooling to automate test development and execution up and down the testing pyramid, including unit, API and integration testing
- Design large scale systems, making the right tradeoffs for risk and long-term maintainability
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-16% employee growth in 12 months
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 HQ
SoHo, New York, NY
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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