Full-Time

Growth Engineer

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Kalshi

Kalshi

51-200 employees

Regulated exchange for event contracts trading

Compensation Overview

$120k - $250k/yr

+ Equity + Benefits

Mid

New York, NY, USA

Category
Frontend Engineering
Software Engineering
Required Skills
React.js
TypeScript
Data Analysis
Requirements
  • 3+ years of industry experience with strong programming skills and the ability to work across the full stack, emphasis on front-end (React + Typescript)
  • Track-record of building viral applications and a knack for creating moments of delight
  • Deeply in love with your craft, obsessive over design details, and focused on excellence in execution
  • Strong customer intuition and consumer sensibility. Deep curiosity and desire not just to build to spec but to question requirements and enhance the product experience
  • Ability to move fast and adjust quickly, in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
  • Performance-minded
  • Data driven, with experience running A/B tests with experimentation platforms
  • Passion for prediction markets and/or financial markets
Responsibilities
  • Create awe: build delightful product experiences that make our customers go from liking the product to loving it. Make people want to come back to Kalshi and share it with their friends
  • Simplify and distill: develop user journeys that promote accessibility and turn complicated financial information into elegant, simple, and compelling product flows
  • Rapidly ship experiments and learn from them: apply an experimental and iterative mindset to the building process
  • Analyzing performance metrics and user feedback: identify opportunities for improvement and optimization
  • Build 0-1: Many of the things you will build do not exist yet
  • Templatize: Take what works and make it easy for non-engineers to use, so we can double down on what drives growth
  • Make Kalshi go viral
Desired Qualifications
  • (Nice to have) NextJS experience, extensive charting experience
  • (Bonus) past experience in consumer fintech

Kalshi operates a regulated exchange where traders can speculate on the outcomes of various events through a new type of financial instrument called 'event contracts.' These contracts allow investors to bet on whether specific future events will happen, such as changes in Covid-19 statistics or legislative decisions in Congress. The platform expands the traditional futures market by addressing unique economic risks that are not typically covered by standard commodities. Kalshi caters to both individual investors and institutional traders, providing them with opportunities to hedge against or speculate on significant events. The company earns revenue by charging transaction fees on trades made on its platform. Kalshi stands out from its competitors by being the first exchange in the U.S. to receive regulatory approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for this type of trading.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$40.2M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2019

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Growing interest in event-driven trading boosts Kalshi's market potential.
  • Advancements in AI enhance prediction accuracy on Kalshi's platform.
  • Increased regulatory clarity encourages more financial institutions to use Kalshi.

What critics are saying

  • Emerging competitors like Polymarket could draw users away from Kalshi.
  • Legal challenges may arise over event contracts being seen as gambling.
  • Volatility in political events could lead to financial losses for Kalshi's users.

What makes Kalshi unique

  • Kalshi is the first US federally regulated exchange for event contracts.
  • Kalshi offers unique exposure to specific events, unlike traditional stocks or bonds.
  • Kalshi's platform is backed by prominent investors like Sequoia and Charles Schwab.

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Headcount

6 month growth

29%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

-3%
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