Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kalepa is building AI systems for the insurance industry, aiming to transform decision-making processes. As a Staff Backend Engineer on the Submission Processing team, you will design and scale systems that manage vast amounts of data, ensuring insurers can make informed decisions.
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
- Building and scaling 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
- Working on cutting-edge challenges that require creativity and ambition
Skills
- 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 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
- Have 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
- Are comfortable with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL
- Are excited by problems others are struggling with
- Bonus: experience with document pipelines and processing large amounts of data
Benefits
- Significant equity options package.
- Work with an ambitious, smart, global, and fun team to transform a $7T 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)
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