Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Kalepa, a company revolutionizing the commercial insurance industry with its AI-powered platform, as a Core Engineer. You'll work on cutting-edge technology, including NLP and firmographic data, contributing significantly to a greenfield opportunity. This role involves solving challenging problems related to data pipelines, distributed systems, and machine learning models. You'll collaborate with a global team of engineers and enjoy a competitive salary, significant equity, and excellent benefits. Kalepa offers a unique culture emphasizing hustle, customer focus, meritocracy, transparency, and experimentation. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of software engineering experience, strong development skills, and a relevant degree.

Requirements

• Have a minimum of 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience
• Have excellent development skills including design, debugging and problem solving
• Possess a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field
• We primarily use Python3 however are open to seeing your code in other OO languages (Java, C++, C#, etc)

Responsibilities

• Step into a greenfield opportunity where your efforts will have a massive impact
• Work to solve interesting problems at the intersection of large and performant data pipelines, distributed systems, machine learning models, and robust infrastructure
• Collaborate with a global team of full-stack, data, ML, and DevOps engineers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS as we work with serverless technologies and asynchronous workflow. (EC2, Lambda, etc.)
• 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
• 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)