Remote Position
[Remote] Staff Backend Engineer - Core Product (USA)
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kalepa builds AI systems for insurers. The Staff Backend Engineer will build reliable systems around fragmented, high-value data, including services, data models, pipelines, and evaluation loops that support better, faster, and more explainable decisions.
Responsibilities
- Designing services, data models, pipelines, and evaluation loops
- Your work will make our data more complete, our decisions more transparent, and our products even more valuable
Skills
- Have 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Embody hustle and grit, you're excellent at your craft and relentless in pursuing it
- Take full ownership of your work and drive projects to completion with minimal oversight
- Communicate proactively, surfacing blockers, asking the right questions, keeping stakeholders in the loop
- Thrive on experimentation: you're comfortable testing ideas, measuring results, and iterating quickly on problems no one has solved before
- Have strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving
- Know Python (our main stack), though we're open to strong candidates from other OO backgrounds
- Have experience with serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments
- Are comfortable with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL
- Experience with LLMs/generative AI, distributed systems
Benefits
- Significant equity options package.
- 20 days of PTO a year.
- Global team offsites.
- 100% covered PPO medical, 100% covered vision and dental for individuals and families.
- Healthy living/gym stipend.
- Mobile phone bill stipend.
- Continuing education credits.
- 401(k) plan with employer contribution (regardless of employee contribution)
- Remote work (USA).
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