Software Engineer, Kalshi
Data
$100-250k
Plus equity
Trading platform for future event outcomes
Open for applications
Trading platform for future event outcomes
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$100-250k
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
- We are looking for ambitious and exceptional people to join our (relatively small) team to help us built the next generation of financial markets
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience, with 4+ years of hands-on software development
- Strong command of key programming languages (Python, Golang, Java)
- Proven track record in data pipeline development using modern orchestration tools (Airflow, Flink, Dagster)
- Production experience with real-time data streaming platforms like Apache Kafka and Flink
- Hands-on expertise with major cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, Redshift) and traditional databases like PostgreSQL
- Strong data visualization skills using industry-standard tools (Tableau, Superset, Looker)
- Proven track record of taking initiative and thriving in fast-paced environments
- Sharp analytical skills with a focus on market dynamics and consumer insights
- Passionate about your craft and committed to delivering exceptional results
Desirable
- Spearheaded data engineering initiatives for a high-growth consumer platform, delivering end-to-end data solutions from ingestion to insights
What the job involves
- As our go to data person at Kalshi, you build and operate the full data stack at Kalshi
- This role is one part data engineering, one part data analysis
- Partner closely across the business to find improvements/opportunities and influence decisions using data science methodologies and tools
- Drive the collection of new data and the refinement of existing data sources and pipelines
- Build actionable KPIs, create production-quality dashboards and notebooks to convey insights
- Analyze large, complex datasets to extract insights and decide on the appropriate techniques and data representation
- Define and advance best practices within an experiment-driven culture
- Inform product engineering roadmap through analysis of marketplace, user behavior, and product trends
- Our tech stack includes Python, SQL, DBT for data analytics and pipelining, pipelining and machine learning, Spark for big data processing, and visualization through Superset. We leverage cloud platforms such as AWS for scalable data storage and computational needs
- You will partner with our Engineering and Product teams to identify critical goals for the business, develop a deep understanding of them, and design scalable solutions
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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