Backend Engineer
Overview
Kalepa is an award-winning AI software company transforming the trillion-dollar commercial insurance industry. Our state-of-the-art AI Copilot platform empowers underwriters to make smarter, faster, and more accurate decisions, so insurers can grow their top and bottom lines while business owners get the coverage they need. Copilot is delivering real, tangible impact to insurers from day 1, and underwriters rave about it.
Job Description
Kalepa is an award-winning AI software company transforming the trillion-dollar commercial insurance industry. Our state-of-the-art AI Copilot platform empowers underwriters to make smarter, faster, and more accurate decisions, so insurers can grow their top and bottom lines while business owners get the coverage they need.
Copilot is delivering real, tangible impact to insurers from day 1, and underwriters rave about it.
Kalepa’s Copilot powers insurers of all sizes, including +$10B carriers like Arch and Munich Re, hypergrowth MGAs like Bowhead Specialty and Paragon, and small regional insurers like North Star Mutual.
At Kalepa, you'll join a team of doers who are passionate about innovating and winning.
We are a fast-moving group with high expectations for every person we hire and everything we build. Join us if you want to be a crucial part of a company whose AI actually works.
Responsibilities
- - Work on cutting edge tech including NLP, firmographic data, entity resolution and much more
- - Solve interesting problems at the intersection of large and performant data pipelines, distributed systems, machine learning models, and robust infrastructure
- - Collaborate with a global team of full-stack, data, ML, and DevOps engineers who are considered polyglots flexing their ability to adapt
Required Skills
- - Minimum of 3+ years of relevant software engineering experience
- - Excellent development skills including design, debugging and problem solving
- - Bachelor''s or Master''s degree in computer science or a related field
- - Experience with AWS as we work with serverless technologies and asynchronous workflow (EC2, Lambda, etc.)
- - Experience with relational databases with a preference for PostgreSQL
- - Love working on distributed systems creating scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure
- - Ability to build data driven microservices leveraging RESTful API's
- - Experience with some of the following tools: Docker, Git, GitHub, Flask, NumPy, Pandas
Benefits
- - Competitive salary (based on experience level)
- - Significant equity options package
- - Work with an ambitious, smart, global, and fun team to transform a $1T global industry
- - 20 days of PTO a year
- - Global team offsites
- - Gym reimbursement
- - Phone reimbursement
- - Student stipend
About the company
Copilot - our AI-powered underwriting software - helps commercial and specialty insurers better serve businesses with more accurate pricing and relevant coverage. It’s a win-win for insurers and businesses alike.