Kalepa is hiring a
Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

The job description is for a Core Engineer position at Kalepa, an AI software company that empowers underwriters 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.

Requirements

• Have a minimum of 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience
• Excellent development skills including design, debugging and problem solving
• Possess a bachelors or master's degree in computer science or a related field
• Have worked 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

Work to 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.)
• Have worked 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)