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.
Kalepa’s technology delivers real, tangible impact to insurers from day one, with underwriters expressing that they cannot function without it.
The Copilot serves insurers of all sizes, including large carriers like Arch and Munich Re, hypergrowth MGAs like Bowhead Specialty and Paragon, and small regional insurers like North Star Mutual.
The role is for a Senior Backend Engineer who will work on cutting-edge technology including NLP, firmographic data, and entity resolution.
The engineer will solve interesting problems at the intersection of large data pipelines, distributed systems, machine learning models, and robust infrastructure.
Collaboration will occur with a global team of full-stack, data, ML, and DevOps engineers.

Requirements:

A minimum of 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience is required.
Excellent development skills including design, debugging, and problem-solving are essential.
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 required.
Familiarity with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL, is preferred.
Experience in working on distributed systems to create scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure is necessary.
Ability to build data-driven microservices leveraging RESTful APIs is required.
Experience with tools such as Docker, Git, GitHub, Flask, NumPy, and Pandas is preferred.

A competitive salary based on experience level is offered.
Significant equity options package is included.
Opportunity to work with an ambitious, smart, global, and fun team to transform a $1T global industry.
Employees receive 20 days of PTO a year.
Global team offsites are organized for team bonding.
100% coverage for PPO medical, vision, and dental insurance for individuals and families is provided.
A healthy living/gym stipend and a mobile phone bill stipend are included.
Continuing education credits are available for professional development.
A 401(k) plan with employer contribution, regardless of employee contribution, is offered.