Kalepa

Senior Backend Engineer - Client integrations (New York)

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4 months ago

Base Salary

$185k - $225k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build external-facing API endpoints for customers’ core 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.
  • Help 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

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally including external-facing APIs or third-party integrations.
  • Strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving.
  • Proficiency in Python or a strong background in another object-oriented language.
  • Experience with serverless technologies such as Lambda and EC2, asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments.
  • Comfort working with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL.
  • Ability to take ownership, drive projects to completion, communicate proactively, and iterate through experimentation.
  • Experience with LLMs or generative AI and distributed systems is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Hybrid office/remote work arrangement.
  • 20 days of paid time off per year.
  • Significant equity options package.
  • Global team offsites.
  • Gym reimbursement, phone reimbursement, and 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.