Kalepa

Senior Backend Engineer - Client integrations (USA)

New York, NY · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$165k-$225kDetected 105 days ago

PythonFull-Stack DevelopmentDevOpsMachine LearningLLMsA/B TestingCommunicationUnderwriting

About the role

For people who want to work on AI that matters, in a sector where correctness, trust, and real-world impact count, Kalepa is just getting started.
Kalepa is backed by leading investors such as IA Ventures and Inspired Capital, and our team brings experience from Facebook, Palantir, Google, Amazon, McKinsey, Mastercard, and Uber.
We are looking for smart engineers who love to code, seek challenging problems, and appreciate recognition for excellent work.

Deliver Customer Impact
We're building something exceptional, and that requires exceptional people and ideas. We have a high bar but we reward excellence with rapid growth. If you're the best at what you do, you'll thrive here.
to build the AI operating system for decision-making across insurance.
Your day-to-day will involve designing and building API endpoints, improving database and query performance, and integrating with a wide range of third-party services.
You'll collaborate with a global team of full-stack, data, ML, and DevOps engineers to build scalable backend solutions as we continue to grow. We're a small team where individual contributions have an outsized impact on both our technology and our business.
Have 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with time spent building external-facing APIs or designing integrations with 3rd party systems.
Take full ownership of your work and drive projects to completion with minimal oversight.
Have strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving.

experience with LLMs/generative AI, distributed systems.
Embody hustle and grit, you're excellent at your craft and relentless in pursuing it.
Communicate proactively, surfacing blockers, asking the right questions, keeping stakeholders in the loop.
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.

software that can read, reason, decide, and act inside real workflows and operate over long-time horizons.
Kalepa begins by augmenting professionals with the tools to succeed at their jobs.
That earns us the right to learn from real decisions, capture decision traces, and automate what can be automated successfully over time.
Our products are already in production with leading insurers, driving measurable outcomes and expanding across functions.

Competitive salary (based on experience level)*.
The salary range listed is an estimate and will vary based on a variety of factors.

Many organizations have a dusty list of corporate values that no one ever follows.
Kalepa is not one of those companies.
Our values are designed to unlock the potential of our employees.
As part of the Client Integrations team, you will work on the external-facing APIs that power our customers' core workflows.
We're obsessed with customer impact. Every feature, every line of code, every decision is measured against one question: does this help insurers make better decisions? If it doesn't drive speed, accuracy, or profitability for our customers, we don't build it.
Global team offsites.

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