Python
Lambda
EC2
Staff Backend Engineer - New Products (Europe)
Overview
Kalepa is an AI Underwriting Platform built to deliver Professional-Grade AI in production, helping insurers centralize and prioritize submission data, surface critical risk insights, and make faster, more confident decisions.
Job Description
Kalepa is changing the commercial insurance industry with its AI Underwriting Platform. The company is backed by leading VCs and has a team with experience from top technology companies.
Responsibilities
- - Help bring an entirely new suite of capabilities into our product
- - Build quick prototypes and prepare polished feature demos
- - Experiment with features to expand our total addressable market
- - Validate assumptions and turn promising concepts into practical solutions
- - Drive innovation and influence how AI transforms the industry
Required Skills
- - 8+ years of software engineering experience
- - Experience building features from the ground up
- - Strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving
- - Proficiency in Python or other OO languages
- - Experience with serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2)
- - Comfortable with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL
- - Bonus: experience with LLMs/generative AI, distributed systems
Benefits
- - Competitive salary
- - Significant equity options package
- - 20 days of PTO a year
- - Global team offsites
- - Healthy living/gym stipend
- - Mobile phone bill stipend
- - Continuing education credits
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.
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