Kalepa - Senior Backend Software Engineer
Requirements
• Experience working with LLMs in production and an understanding of what it takes to deploy them at scale. • Experience with document pipelines and processing large amounts of data. • Experience with distributed systems. • Experience in insurance, fintech, or another data-heavy regulated domain. • What you’ll get • What you’ll get • Competitive salary (based on experience level)*. • 20 days of PTO a year. • Global team offsites (2024 - Lisbon, 2025 - Cartagena, 2026 - Tbilisi). • Healthy living/gym stipend. • Mobile phone bill stipend. • Continuing education credits. • For US employees only: • 100% covered medical, 100% covered vision and dental for individuals and families. • 401(k) plan with employer contribution (regardless of employee contribution) • The salary range listed is an estimate and will vary based on a variety of factors. Final compensation will be determined during the offer stage based on relevant experience, performance during the interview process, and geographic location, and may therefore differ from the posted range.
Responsibilities
• Lead the scoping, design, and delivery of complex backend systems in Python on AWS: services, data models, and asynchronous pipelines. • Build and scale LLM-based systems that process large volumes of unstructured documents and data with precision and explainability. • Design external-facing APIs and integrations with third-party systems that customers depend on. • Own database and query performance as data volume grows; proactively manage technical debt. • Contribute to architectural discussions and decisions across the entire product, and iterate with teams to modify and prioritize within the development effort. • Accurately estimate your work, consistently meet deadlines, and help others estimate theirs. • Take a leading role in incident and bug resolution; be the strong debugger others turn to. • Lead the adoption of best practices for development, testing, and deployment. • Mentor other engineers through code review, pairing, and design feedback. • Use AI tooling deliberately to multiply your own output and quality. • 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating backend systems in production. • Know Python (our main stack), though we're open to strong candidates from other OO backgrounds. • Experience with AWS and serverless technologies (Lambda, Step Functions), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments. • Strong knowledge of relational databases and their performance tuning, ideally PostgreSQL. • Mastery of software development fundamentals: system design, debugging, testing, and problem-solving. • Experience building external-facing APIs or designing integrations with third-party systems. • You take full ownership of your work and drive projects to completion with minimal oversight. • You communicate proactively: surfacing blockers, asking the right questions, keeping stakeholders in the loop. • You thrive on experimentation: comfortable testing ideas, measuring results, and iterating quickly on problems no one has solved before. • You're excited by problems others are struggling with.
Benefits
• We differentiate our North America salary ranges using two geographical zones:Zone 1 (New York and San Francisco) - $213,000 to $246,000*Zone 2 (all other locations in the US and Canada) - $192,000 to $246,000* • Zone 1 • Zone 2 • Location • Location • We are primarily a remote company with employees across the US, Canada, and Europe. Our HQ is in New York city. • This team is tasked with evaluating Kalepa’s core operations workflow from first principles. They architect and deliver an extensible insurance workflow pipeline that automates the back office with best-in-class precision/recall, automation, and evals for continuous improvement. • Ownership areas: Central evals framework. • Ownership areas
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