Staff Backend Engineer – Core Product

🕒 May 13

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Kalepa

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11 - 50 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $14M Series A on 2021-09

Artificial Intelligence • Insurance

Kalepa is a company focused on revolutionizing the field of insurance underwriting through its AI-powered software, Copilot. Copilot helps underwriters make more informed decisions by consolidating critical information and streamlining the underwriting process, thus increasing efficiency and profitability for insurance carriers and MGAs. Kalepa ensures that commercial and specialty underwriters can quickly bind the most profitable risks by providing them with essential insights and tools. The company's technology aims to reduce complexities, improve underwriting quality, and enhance growth in the insurance sector.

📋 Description

• We're looking for strong backend engineers who love building reliable systems around fragmented, but high-value data. • As part of the Core Backend team, you’ll work on the systems at the center of Kalepa: designing services, data models, pipelines, and evaluation loops. • The goal is not just cleaner data, but an intelligence layer that makes better, faster, and more explainable decisions. • You’ll join a high-ownership team responsible for some of Kalepa’s most business-critical infrastructure. Your work will make our data more complete, our decisions more transparent, and our products even more valuable.

🎯 Requirements

• Have 8+ years of software engineering experience. • Embody hustle and grit, you're excellent at your craft and relentless in pursuing it. • Take full ownership of your work and drive projects to completion with minimal oversight. • Communicate proactively, surfacing blockers, asking the right questions, keeping stakeholders in the loop. • Thrive on experimentation: you're comfortable testing ideas, measuring results, and iterating quickly on problems no one has solved before. • Have strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving. • Know Python (our main stack), though we're open to strong candidates from other OO backgrounds. • Have experience with serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments. • Are comfortable with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL. • Bonus: experience with LLMs/generative AI, distributed systems.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary (based on experience level*). • Significant equity options package. • Work with an ambitious, smart, global, and fun team to transform a $7T global industry. • 20 days of PTO a year. • Global team offsites (2021 - Playa del Carmen, 2022 - Rome, 2023 - Buenos Aires, 2024 - Lisbon, 2025 - Cartagena) • Healthy living/gym stipend. Mobile phone bill stipend. • Continuing education credits.