Remote (Global)

Kalepa is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer – Submission Processing Team (Europe)

About the Role

Join our team as a Senior Backend Engineer on the Submission Processing Team. You'll work at the intersection of AI and backend engineering, focusing on core R&D to process millions of insurance documents at scale. Your work will involve extracting precise information and building LLM-based solutions with outsized impact.

What You'll Do

  • Build LLM-based solutions that process millions of insurance documents at scale.
  • Extract precise information about companies from documents and synthesize it into a complete picture of the insured.
  • Work on R&D challenges that require creativity and ambition.
  • Collaborate with a global team of full-stack, data, ML, and DevOps engineers.
  • Build scalable backend solutions as the company grows.

What We're Looking For

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Deep Python expertise.
  • Strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving.
  • Experience working with LLMs in production and deploying them at scale.
  • Fluency with coding agents and AI-assisted development.
  • Experience with AWS and serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments.
  • Comfort with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL.
  • You embody hustle and grit, are excellent at your craft, and relentless in pursuing it.
  • You take full ownership of work and drive projects to completion with minimal oversight.
  • You communicate proactively, surfacing blockers, asking questions, and keeping stakeholders in the loop.
  • You thrive on experimentation: comfortable testing ideas, measuring results, and iterating quickly.
  • You are excited by R&D and want to solve problems others are still struggling with.

Technical Stack

  • Python
  • PostgreSQL
  • AWS
  • Lambda
  • EC2

Team & Environment

You'll be part of a small team where individual contributions have an outsized impact. The Submission Processing team collaborates with a global group of full-stack, data, ML, and DevOps engineers.

Benefits & Compensation

  • Competitive salary ($85k – $155k USD* based on experience level).
  • Significant equity options package.
  • 401(k) plan with employer contribution.
  • 100% covered medical, vision, and dental insurance.
  • 20 days of PTO a year.
  • Global team offsites.
  • Healthy living/gym stipend.
  • Mobile phone bill stipend.
  • Continuing education credits.

Work Mode

This is a global position open to candidates based in Europe.

We are an equal opportunity employer.

Required Skills
PythonPostgreSQLAWSLambdaEC2API DesignSystem ArchitectureDistributed SystemsData ProcessingPerformance OptimizationSecurityCI/CDTerraformDockerKubernetes
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Kalepa

Kalepa is an AI Underwriting Platform built to deliver Professional-Grade AI in production, helping the world's most important insurers centralize and prioritize submission data, surface critical risk insights, and make faster, more confident decisions.

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Category backend
Posted 3 months ago