Kalepa
Insurance
StaffBackendEngineer-CoreProduct
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“Staff Backend Engineer - Core Product at Kalepa. Skills: backend engineering, system design, Python, serverless technologies, cloud environments, relational databases. designing services. data models”
What You'll Achieve.
make better, faster, and more explainable decisions; make our data more complete; make our decisions more transparent; make our products even more valuable
Industry & Context.
problem-solving; debugging; experimentation; testing ideas; measuring results; iterating quickly
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
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, Have fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving, Know Python (our main stack), though we're open to candidates from other OO backgrounds, Have experience with serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments, Are comfortable with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL
Nice to Have
experience with LLMs/generative AI, distributed systems
What You'll Do.
making data more complete
making decisions more transparent
making products more valuable
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Communicate proactively; surfacing blockers; asking the right questions; keeping stakeholders in the loop
Communication Scope
Communicate proactively; surfacing blockers; asking the right questions; keeping stakeholders in the loop; honest, transparent communication
Process & Methodology
drive projects to completion with minimal oversight
Full Job Description
About Kalepa: Insurance is a $7T global industry built on professional labor: underwriting, claims, pricing, operations, and distribution. Kalepa is building AI that can perform that work. We create professional-grade AI systems for insurers: software that can read, reason, decide, and act inside real workflows and operate over long-time horizons. Kalepa begins by augmenting professionals with the tools to succeed at their jobs. That earns us the right to learn from real decisions, capture decision traces, and automate what can be automated successfully over time. Our products are already in production with leading insurers, driving measurable outcomes and expanding across functions. The opportunity is far broader than any single workflow: to build the AI operating system for decision-making across insurance. For people who want to work on AI that matters, in a sector where correctness, trust, and real-world impact count, Kalepa is just getting started. Kalepa is backed by leading investors such as IA Ventures and Inspired Capital, and our team brings experience from Facebook, Palantir, Google, Amazon, McKinsey, Mastercard, and Uber. Our Values (This is important): Many organizations have a dusty list of corporate values that no one ever follows. Kalepa is not one of those companies. Our values are designed to unlock the potential of our employees. Success at Kalepa is bred from five core principles: Hustle and Determination - We hire people who take full ownership of their craft and relentlessly pursue excellence with speed and determination. We choose the hard problems and do not give up. This is the foundation of how we work and how we win. Deliver Customer Impact - We're obsessed with customer impact. Every feature, every line of code, every decision is measured against one question: does this help insurers make better decisions? If it doesn't drive speed, accuracy, or profitability for our customers, we don't build it. Meritocracy - We're building something exc
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