[Remote] Staff Backend Engineer - Submission Processing

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kalepa builds AI systems for insurers. The Staff Backend Engineer on the Submission Processing team designs and scales LLM-based systems that process unstructured data, extract information, and surface insights for insurers. The role owns system architecture and technical direction for the team.

Responsibilities

• We are looking for engineers who enjoy going deep on hard problems and owning end-to-end outcomes. As a Staff engineer on the Submission Processing team, you’ll work at the intersection of AI and backend engineering and have major ownership and agency: design the systems, make architectural calls under ambiguity, and play a key role in setting the technical direction for the team
• You’ll be working on building and scaling LLM-based systems that process billions of highly unstructured data points on a daily basis, extract precise information, and surface insights that insurers rely on for high-stakes decisions

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
• Have worked with LLMs in production and understand what it takes to deploy them at scale
• Have experience with AWS and serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments
• Know Python (our main stack), though we're open to strong candidates from other OO backgrounds
• Are comfortable with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL
• Are excited by problems others are struggling with
• Bonus: experience with document pipelines and processing large amounts of data

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)

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