Kalepa

Senior Backend Engineer - Client integrations (USA)

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4 months ago
Remote, United States or New York, NY, USASenior
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Base Salary

$165k - $225k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build external-facing API endpoints for customer workflows.
  • Improve database and query performance.
  • Integrate with a wide range of third-party services.
  • Translate product requirements into reliable business logic.
  • Diagnose and resolve customer issues.
  • Make the platform faster, more stable, and easier to use.
  • Collaborate with full-stack, data, ML, and DevOps engineers to build scalable backend solutions.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of software engineering experience, ideally including external-facing APIs or third-party integrations.
  • Strong system design, debugging, and problem-solving fundamentals.
  • Strong Python knowledge, with openness to candidates from other object-oriented programming backgrounds.
  • Experience with serverless technologies, asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments.
  • Comfort with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL.
  • Experience taking ownership of projects and driving them to completion with minimal oversight.
  • Excellent proactive communication and ability to collaborate with stakeholders.
  • Bonus experience with LLMs, generative AI, or distributed systems.

Benefits

  • Significant equity options package
  • 20 days of paid time off per year
  • Global team offsites
  • Gym reimbursement
  • Phone reimbursement
  • Student stipend

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About Kalepa

51-200 employees

Make better underwriting decisions, faster with Kalepa. Kalepa delivers Professional Grade AI for profitable underwriting - instantly analyzing submissions, surfacing critical risk insights, and pinpointing the most profitable opportunities with the speed and precision modern risk demands.