Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kalepa is building AI systems for the insurance industry. As a Staff Backend Engineer on the Submission Processing team, you will design and scale systems that process vast amounts of data and contribute to setting the technical direction of the team.
Responsibilities
- Work at the intersection of AI and backend engineering
- Design the systems
- Make architectural calls under ambiguity
- Play a key role in setting the technical direction for the team
- Build and scale LLM-based systems that process billions of highly unstructured data points on a daily basis
- Extract precise information
- Surface insights that insurers rely on for high-stakes decisions
Skills
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Embody hustle and grit, you're excellent at your craft and relentless in pursuing it
- Take full ownership of your work and drive projects to completion with minimal oversight
- Communicate proactively, surfacing blockers, asking the right questions, keeping stakeholders in the loop
- Thrive on experimentation: you're comfortable testing ideas, measuring results, and iterating quickly on problems no one has solved before
- Strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving
- Worked with LLMs in production and understand what it takes to deploy them at scale
- Experience with AWS and serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments
- Know Python (our main stack), though we're open to strong candidates from other OO backgrounds
- Comfortable with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL
- Excited by problems others are struggling with
- Experience with document pipelines and processing large amounts of data
Benefits
- Significant equity options package.
- 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)
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