Senior Backend Engineer (USA)

April 7, 2023

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Kalepa

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Insurance • Data • Analytics • Commercial Insurance • Specialty Insurance

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💰 $14M Series A on 2021-09

Description

Kalepa is a rapidly growing, well-financed Series A start-up re-imagining the trillion-dollar commercial insurance industry. Our cross-functional teams leverage AI, cutting-edge tech and tons of data to deliver the right insurance coverage at the right price for every business. We call this Efficient Frontier insurance. It's the way insurance should work. We are looking for smart programmers who love to code, seek challenging problems and appreciate recognition for excellent work. As a core engineer you will step into a greenfield opportunity where your efforts will have a massive impact. You will be working on cutting edge tech including NLP, firmographic data, entity resolution and much more. In this role you will work to solve interesting problems at the intersection of large and performant data pipelines, distributed systems, machine learning models, and robust infrastructure. You will be collaborating with a global team of full-stack, data, ML, and DevOps engineers who are considered polyglots flexing their ability to adapt as we scale. What you'll get:

Requirements

• Have a minimum of 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience. • Have excellent development skills including design, debugging and problem solving. • You possess a bachelors or master's degree in computer science or a related field. • We primarily use Python3 however are open to seeing your code in other OO languages (Java, C++, C#, etc). • Experience with AWS as we work with serverless technologies and asynchronous workflow. (EC2, Lambda, etc.) • Have worked with relational databases with a preference for PostgreSQL • Love working on distributed systems creating scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure. • Can build data driven microservices leveraging RESTful API's. • Have worked with some of the following tools: Docker, Git, GitHub, Flask, NumPy,Pandas.

Benefits

• Competitive salary (based on experience level). • Significant equity options package. • Work with an ambitious, smart, global, and fun team to transform a $1T global industry. • Ground floor opportunity – an early member of Kalepa's engineering leadership team • 20 days of PTO a year. • Global team offsites. • 100% covered PPO medical, 100% covered vision and dental for individuals and families. • Healthy living/gym stipend. • Mobile phone bill stipend. • Continuing education credits. • Home office stipend. • 401(k) plan with employer match.