Backend Engineer

Overview

Kalepa is building AI that can perform professional labor in the insurance industry, creating professional-grade AI systems for insurers.

Job Description

Kalepa is backed by leading investors and has a team with experience from top companies. They focus on building AI that matters in the insurance sector.

Responsibilities

• - Own backend services, data and ML pipelines, and the infrastructure behind our product used by commercial insurance underwriters
• - Build and improve systems that ingest, process, and reason over large volumes of structured and unstructured data
• - Collaborate closely with experienced full-stack, backend, ML, and platform engineers
• - Shape how production systems are designed, built, tested, and operated at scale

Required Skills

• - 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production systems
• - Excellent development skills including design, debugging, and problem solving
• - Strong in Python, with solid fundamentals in at least one other language
• - Experience with relational databases, with a preference for PostgreSQL
• - Experience with AWS and asynchronous or serverless workflows (EC2, Lambda, etc.)
• - Can design and build data-driven microservices leveraging RESTful APIs
• - Degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• - Enjoy writing code and solving non-trivial technical problems
• - Curious about AI, data, and real-world applications of machine learning
• - Take ownership and are comfortable working with ambiguity
• - Move fast, learn quickly, and value high standards
• - Appreciate direct feedback, meritocracy, and transparency

Benefits

• - Competitive salary based on experience level
• - Significant equity options package
• - Direct work on core systems at a fast-growing AI startup
• - Fully remote work from Europe
• - Onsite team events in Warsaw and global team offsites
• - Real responsibility and production impact from day one
• - 20 days of PTO a year
• - Gym, phone, and learning stipend reimbursement