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. 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 minimal oversight

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience with LLMs in production and deploying them at scale
• Proficiency in Python
• 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
• 100% covered PPO medical, vision, and dental for individuals and families
• Global team offsites
• Healthy living/gym stipend and mobile phone bill stipend
• Continuing education credits
• 401(k) plan with employer contribution