Quantitative Developer (Kalshi Trading LLC)

Kalshi•New York, NY

11d•$150,000 - $250,000

About The Position

Kalshi is defining a new category: prediction markets. Kalshi allows people to trade on the outcome of any events and turn any question about the future into a financial asset. Kalshi fought for years and legalized prediction markets in the US for the first time in history. Kalshi is currently the fastest growing financial market in America, and has thousands of markets across politics, economics, financials, weather, tech, AI, culture and more. We believe prediction markets have the potential to be the largest financial market because they turn anything into a financial position. Our vision: well… build the largest financial market on the planet. Our mission: bring more truth to the world through the power of markets. Building a new category is hard… like really hard. But it’s beautiful and deeply fulfilling. Our culture is simple: we hire really talented people, work really hard, and enjoy the climb. We are looking for ambitious and exceptional people to join our (relatively small) team to help us build the next generation of financial markets. Kalshi Trading is an affiliated trading entity that operates across all different categories on Kalshi. We are looking for traders who are either exceptional in their particular niche, or good generalists able to quickly learn how to trade completely new topics as needed. The ideal candidate will have experience with at least a few of the following items: Engineering: building and deploying autonomous systems, especially trading systems, low latency programming for trading applications, setting up automated data pipelines and ingesting datasets from a variety of fields, infrastructure management (AWS stack, SQL databases), accurate bookkeeping or other financial operations experience. Modeling: building and deploying statistical forecasting models, machine learning, neural networks, or generative AI including LLMs, data collection via APIs or web scraping, domain expertise in one or more of the categories on Kalshi, such as: sports, crypto, financials, economics, weather. Trading: Proven track record trading on Kalshi or other prediction markets: consistently positive P&L, substantial volume traded on an ongoing basis, experience making large trades and holding large positions, familiarity with the Kalshi API or other trading APIs, experience with automated liquidity provision and position management, sports betting on traditional bookmakers, trading other financial instruments, such as derivatives or cryptocurrencies, poker, chess, e-sports, or other competitive games played at a high level. 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. You will have a lot of influence in shaping what both your role and the activity of Kalshi Trading look like as we grow. There's a lot of green field to conquer, we trust that you'll make a lot of it your own.

Requirements

building and deploying autonomous systems, especially trading systems
low latency programming for trading applications
setting up automated data pipelines and ingesting datasets from a variety of fields
infrastructure management (AWS stack, SQL databases)
accurate bookkeeping or other financial operations experience
building and deploying statistical forecasting models
machine learning, neural networks, or generative AI including LLMs
data collection via APIs or web scraping
domain expertise in one or more of the categories on Kalshi, such as: sports, crypto, financials, economics, weather
Proven track record trading on Kalshi or other prediction markets
consistently positive P&L
substantial volume traded on an ongoing basis
experience making large trades and holding large positions
familiarity with the Kalshi API or other trading APIs
experience with automated liquidity provision and position management
sports betting on traditional bookmakers
trading other financial instruments, such as derivatives or cryptocurrencies
poker, chess, e-sports, or other competitive games played at a high level