Remote Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Core Engineer at Kalepa, an award-winning AI software company specializing in the commercial insurance industry. The role involves working on cutting-edge tech including NLP, firmographic data, entity resolution, and more. The candidate should have 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience, excellent development skills, a degree in computer science or related field, and proficiency with Python3, AWS, relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL), distributed systems, building data-driven microservices, and various tools like Docker, Git, GitHub, Flask, NumPy, Pandas. The company offers competitive salary, significant equity options package, 20 days of PTO a year, global team offsites, fully covered health insurance, vision, dental, gym stipend, mobile phone bill stipend, continuing education credits, and a 401(k) plan with employer contribution.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience
• Excellent development skills including design, debugging and problem solving
• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field
• Working 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

Responsibilities

Solve interesting problems at the intersection of large and performant data pipelines, distributed systems, machine learning models, and robust infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS as we work with serverless technologies and asynchronous workflow (EC2, Lambda, etc.)
• Experience with some of the following tools: Docker, Git, GitHub, Flask, NumPy,Pandas

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
• 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)