Remote Senior Backend Engineer (USA/Canada)

Description:

• Kalepa is a company focused on transforming the commercial insurance industry with its AI Copilot platform, which helps underwriters make smarter, faster, and more accurate decisions.
• The platform has shown to significantly improve clients' financial performance upon implementation.
• The team consists of experienced professionals from top technology companies such as Facebook, Google, Amazon, Mastercard, and Uber.
• The company is backed by leading venture capital firms like IA Ventures and Inspired Capital.
• Kalepa values hustle, customer focus, meritocracy, transparency, and experimentation, fostering a culture that encourages employee potential.
• The role of Senior Backend Engineer involves working on cutting-edge technologies including NLP, firmographic data, and entity resolution.
• The position offers a greenfield opportunity where the engineer's contributions will have a substantial impact on the company's success.
• The engineer will collaborate with a global team of full-stack, data, ML, and DevOps engineers to solve complex problems related to data pipelines, distributed systems, and machine learning models.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have a minimum of 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Excellent development skills in design, debugging, and problem-solving are required.
• A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field is necessary.
• Proficiency in Python3 is preferred, but candidates with experience in other object-oriented languages (Java, C++, C#, etc.) will also be considered.
• Experience with AWS and serverless technologies (EC2, Lambda, etc.) is essential.
• Familiarity with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL, is preferred.
• Candidates should have experience in building distributed systems that are scalable and fault-tolerant.
• The ability to create data-driven microservices leveraging RESTful APIs is required.
• Experience with tools such as Docker, Git, GitHub, Flask, NumPy, and Pandas is beneficial.

Benefits:

• The position offers a competitive salary based on experience level.
• Significant equity options are included in the compensation package.
• Employees will work with a smart, ambitious, and fun global team aiming to transform a $1 trillion industry.
• The role includes 20 days of paid time off (PTO) per year.
• Employees will participate in global team offsites.
• The company provides 100% coverage for PPO medical, vision, and dental insurance for individuals and families.
• A healthy living/gym stipend and a mobile phone bill stipend are offered.
• Continuing education credits are available for professional development.
• A 401(k) plan with employer contributions is provided, regardless of employee contributions.