Staff Backend Engineer

About the Company

Kalepa is building AI that can perform professional labor in the $7T global insurance industry. We create professional-grade AI systems for insurers that can read, reason, decide, and act inside real workflows. Backed by IA Ventures and Inspired Capital, our team brings experience from companies like Facebook, Palantir, Google, and Amazon.

Responsibilities

• Design systems and make architectural calls under ambiguity
• Set the technical direction for the Submission Processing team
• Build and scale LLM-based systems that process billions of unstructured data points
• Extract precise information and surface insights for high-stakes insurance decisions
• Drive projects to completion with full ownership and minimal oversight

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience with LLMs in production and deploying them at scale
• Proficiency in Python or other strong Object-Oriented languages
• Experience with AWS and serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2)
• Experience with asynchronous workflows and cloud environments
• Strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving
• Proficiency with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with document pipelines
• Experience processing large amounts of data

Benefits

• Competitive salary and significant equity options package
• 20 days of PTO per year
• Global team offsites
• Healthy living/gym stipend
• Mobile phone bill stipend
• Continuing education credits