Kalepa · 14 hours ago
Senior Backend Engineer – Submission Processing Team (USA)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$170K/yr - $210K/yr
5+ years expKalepa is an AI Underwriting Platform that aims to revolutionize the commercial insurance industry. The Senior Backend Engineer will work on core R&D tasks, developing solutions that leverage AI to process insurance documents and improve decision-making.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Big DataCommercial InsuranceInsuranceInsurTechSoftwareTechnical Support
Responsibilities
Build LLM-based solutions that process millions of insurance documents at scale, extracting precise information about companies and synthesizing it into a complete picture of the insured
Collaborate with a global team of full-stack, data, ML, and DevOps engineers to build scalable backend solutions
Qualification
Required
5+ years of software engineering experience with deep Python expertise
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
Have strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving
Have worked with LLMs in production and understand what it takes to deploy them at scale
Are fluent with coding agents and AI-assisted development - you don't just tolerate AI tools, you actively push their boundaries
Have experience with AWS and serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments
Are comfortable with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL
Are excited by R&D and want to solve problems others are still struggling with
Benefits
Significant equity options package.
401(k) plan with employer contribution (regardless of employee contribution)
Excellent benefits: 100% covered medical, 100% covered vision and dental, and others.
20 days of PTO a year.
Global team offsites (2021 - Playa del Carmen, 2022 - Rome, 2023 - Buenos Aires, 2024 - Lisbon)
Healthy living/gym stipend.
Mobile phone bill stipend.
Continuing education credits.
Company
Kalepa
Kalepa is a commercial insurance company that provides an AI-powered underwriting workbench for insurers.
11-50 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$14MKey Investors
Inspired Capital PartnersIA Ventures
2021-09-03Series A· $14M
2018-10-01Seed
Leadership Team
Paul Monasterio
CEO and Co-Founder
Daniel Hillman
COO and Co-Founder
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