Staff Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Kalepa, a company revolutionizing the commercial insurance industry with its AI-powered platform, and become a Core Engineer. This greenfield opportunity offers a significant impact, working on cutting-edge technologies like NLP and firmographic data. You will solve challenging problems involving large data pipelines, distributed systems, and machine learning models. Collaborate with a global team of engineers and leverage your expertise in Python or other OO languages. The role requires 10+ years of software engineering experience and a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field. Kalepa offers a competitive salary, equity options, and various benefits.

Requirements

• Have 10+ years of relevant software engineering experience
• Possess excellent development skills including design, debugging, and problem-solving
• Have a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field
• Be proficient in Python3 or other OO languages (Java, C++, C#, etc.)
• Have experience with AWS serverless technologies and asynchronous workflows (EC2, Lambda, etc.)
• Have experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL
• Have experience working on distributed systems, creating scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure
• Have experience with tools such as Docker, Git, GitHub, Flask, NumPy, and Pandas

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain high-quality, scalable, and maintainable code for Kalepa's AI Copilot platform
• Work on cutting-edge technologies including NLP, firmographic data, and entity resolution
• 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
• Build data-driven microservices leveraging RESTful APIs

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with other cloud providers (e.g., GCP, Azure)
• Experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration technologies

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
• Healthy living/gym stipend
• Mobile phone bill stipend
• Continuing education credits