Remote Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Kalepa is an award-winning software start-up revolutionizing the commercial insurance industry by providing AI-powered underwriting tools for insurers. As a core engineer, you will work on cutting-edge tech including NLP, firmographic data, entity resolution, and React + Redux for client-facing applications, as well as Python + pSQL for backend services. With 5+ years of software engineering experience, excellent development skills, and relevant degrees, you'll join a global team to transform the $1T industry. Benefits include competitive salary, significant equity options package, PTO, team offsites, gym stipend, mobile phone bill stipend, continuing education credits, and home office stipend.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience
• Excellent development skills including design, debugging and problem solving
• Enjoy building front end components including end to end design/architecture
• Experience in a modern FE framework – Preferably React/Redux
• Experience in backend development and API Design
• Bachelors or master's degree in computer science or a related field

Responsibilities

• Work on client-facing application using React + Redux
• Work on backend services using Python + pSQL

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS as we work with serverless technologies and asynchronous workflow
• Have worked with relational databases with a preference for PostgreSQL
• Experience with some of the following tools: Docker, Git, GitHub, Flask, NumPy,Pandas

Benefits

• Competitive salary (based on experience level)
• Significant equity options package
• 20 days of PTO a year
• Global team offsites
• Gym stipend
• Mobile phone bill stipend
• Continuing education credits
• Home office stipend