Staff Backend Engineer - Core Product (New York)
About The Position
Kalepa is building AI that can perform the work currently done by professionals in the $7T global insurance industry. We create professional-grade AI systems for insurers, software that can read, reason, decide, and act within real workflows and operate over long-time horizons. Our products are already in production with leading insurers, driving measurable outcomes and expanding across functions. The opportunity is to build the AI operating system for decision-making across insurance. This role is on the Core Backend team, working on systems at the center of Kalepa, designing services, data models, pipelines, and evaluation loops to create an intelligence layer that makes better, faster, and more explainable decisions. The work will make data more complete, decisions more transparent, and products more valuable.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience.
- Strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving.
- Experience with Python (our main stack), though we're open to strong candidates from other OO backgrounds.
- Experience with serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments.
- Comfortable with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with LLMs/generative AI.
- Experience with distributed systems.
Responsibilities
- Design services, data models, pipelines, and evaluation loops.
- Work on systems at the center of Kalepa.
- Make data more complete, decisions more transparent, and products more valuable.
- Take full ownership of work and drive projects to completion with minimal oversight.
- Communicate proactively, surfacing blockers, asking the right questions, and keeping stakeholders in the loop.
- Embody hustle and grit, be excellent at your craft and relentless in pursuing it.
- Thrive on experimentation: test ideas, measure results, and iterate quickly on problems no one has solved before.
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.
- 100% covered PPO medical, 100% covered vision and dental for individuals and families.
- Healthy living/gym stipend.
- Mobile phone bill stipend.
- Continuing education credits.
- 401(k) plan with employer contribution (regardless of employee contribution).
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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