Remote Backend Engineer (Europe)

Description:

• Kalepa is an award-winning AI software company transforming the trillion-dollar commercial insurance industry.
• The company’s AI Copilot platform empowers underwriters to make smarter, faster, and more accurate decisions.
• The platform delivers real, tangible impact to insurers from day one, with positive feedback from underwriters.
• Kalepa’s Copilot serves insurers of all sizes, including large carriers like Arch and Munich Re, hypergrowth MGAs, and small regional insurers.
• The company seeks smart programmers who love to code and appreciate recognition for excellent work.
• The role offers a greenfield opportunity where efforts will have a massive impact on cutting-edge technology, including NLP and machine learning.
• The position involves solving interesting problems at the intersection of data pipelines, distributed systems, and robust infrastructure.
• Collaboration with a global team of engineers across various disciplines is expected.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 3+ years of relevant software engineering experience is required.
• Excellent development skills, including design, debugging, and problem-solving, are necessary.
• A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field is required.
• Proficiency in Python3 is preferred, but experience in other object-oriented languages (Java, C++, C#, etc.) is also acceptable.
• Experience with AWS and serverless technologies (EC2, Lambda, etc.) is required.
• Familiarity with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL, is preferred.
• Experience in building scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure in distributed systems is necessary.
• Ability to create data-driven microservices leveraging RESTful APIs is required.
• Experience with tools such as Docker, Git, GitHub, Flask, NumPy, and Pandas is preferred.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary based on experience level is offered.
• A significant equity options package is included.
• Opportunity to work with an ambitious, smart, global, and fun team to transform a $1 trillion global industry.
• Employees receive 20 days of paid time off (PTO) per year.
• Global team offsites are organized for team building.
• Gym and phone reimbursement are provided.
• A student stipend is available for further education.