Senior Backend Engineer

4 weeks ago

New York, New York, United States Kalepa Full time

Kalepa is an award-winning AI software company transforming the trillion-dollar commercial insurance industry. Our state-of-the-art AI Copilot platform empowers underwriters to make smarter, faster, and more accurate decisions, so insurers can grow their top and bottom lines while business owners get the coverage they need.

Copilot is delivering real, tangible impact to insurers from day 1, and underwriters rave about it. . "[They] don't know if [they] could function doing daily underwriting without having it." and they assert that "not only is Kalepa's technology miles ahead of other vendors, but when it came to driving real impact on our business, there [is] no competition."

Kalepa's Copilot powers insurers of all sizes, including +$10B carriers like Arch and Munich Re, hypergrowth MGAs like Bowhead Specialty and Paragon, and small regional insurers like North Star Mutual.

At Kalepa, you'll join a team of doers who are passionate about innovating and winning. We are a fast-moving group with high expectations for every person we hire and everything we build.

Join us if you want to be a crucial part of a company whose AI actually works.


Salary range: $160k – $210k

Equity range: 0.01% – 0.15%

What we are looking for:

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.

Hybrid: Office/Remote

You'll be right at home if you:

  • 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.

What you'll get:

  • 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.
  • 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)

Kalepa's team members bring experience from top technology, including Facebook, Google, Amazon, Mastercard, and Uber. Kalepa is backed by IA Ventures (early investors in Datadog, Wise, Better, Digital Ocean, TheTradeDesk, Flatiron Health, Komodo Health, etc.); former Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker's Inspired Capital; and leaders in financial services and technology, including Gokul Rajaram from Doordash, Coinbase, and Square, Jackie Reses from Square, Affirm, and Alibaba, and Henry Ward from Carta.

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