[Remote] Senior Backend Engineer - Client integrations (USA)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kalepa builds AI systems for insurers. The Senior Backend Engineer on the Client Integrations team builds and maintains external-facing APIs and integrations that support customers’ core workflows, while improving platform performance, stability, and usability.

Responsibilities

• As part of the Client Integrations team, you will work on the external-facing APIs that power our customers’ core workflows
• Your day-to-day will involve designing and building API endpoints, improving database and query performance, and integrating with a wide range of third-party services
• You’ll translate product requirements into reliable business logic, help diagnose and resolve customer issues, and contribute to making our platform faster, more stable, and easier to use
• You'll collaborate with a global team of full-stack, data, ML, and DevOps engineers to build scalable backend solutions as we continue to grow
• We're a small team where individual contributions have an outsized impact on both our technology and our business

Skills

• Have 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with time spent building external-facing APIs or designing integrations with 3rd party systems
• 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.
• Gym reimbursement.
• Phone reimbursement.
• Student stipend.

Company Overview

Kalepa is Professional Grade AI for insurance, trusted by top-tier insurers to accelerate profitable growth. It was founded in 2018, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.kalepa.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Kalepa has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2024, 1 in 2023, 1 in 2022, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.