New York, NY. Hybrid Hybrid Employment $210k – $255k USD

Kalepa is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer - New Products (New York)

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with time spent building features from the ground up.
  • 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.

Nice to Have

  • 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 $1T global industry.
  • 20 days of PTO a year.
  • Global team offsites.
  • Gym reimbursement.
  • Phone reimbursement.
  • Student stipend.

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Team

Structure: small, high-ownership group

Additional Information

  • Work with an ambitious, smart, global, and fun team to transform a $1T global industry.
  • Global team offsites.
  • 20 days of PTO a year.
  • Gym reimbursement.
  • Phone reimbursement.
  • Student stipend.
Required Skills
serverless technologiesLLMs/generative AIdistributed systems. serverless technologiesLLMs/generative AIdistributed systems.
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About company
Kalepa
Insurance is a $7T global industry built on professional labor: underwriting, claims, pricing, operations, and distribution. Kalepa is building AI that can perform that work. We create professional-grade AI systems for insurers: 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. The opportunity is far broader than any single workflow: to build the AI operating system for decision-making across insurance. 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.
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Job Details
Department New Products
Category backend
Posted 2 hours ago