Kalepa

Staff Backend Engineer - Submission Processing

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Base Salary

$230k - $290k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and scale LLM-based systems that process billions of unstructured data points daily
  • Extract precise information and surface insights that support insurers’ high-stakes decisions
  • Make architectural calls under ambiguity and set the technical direction for the Submission Processing team
  • Own end-to-end outcomes and drive projects to completion with minimal oversight
  • Work at the intersection of AI and backend engineering on challenging, unsolved industry problems

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of software engineering experience
  • Strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving
  • Production experience with LLMs and deploying them at scale
  • Experience with AWS, Lambda, EC2, serverless technologies, asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments
  • Proficiency in Python, with openness to candidates from other object-oriented programming backgrounds
  • Comfort with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL
  • Experience with document pipelines and processing large amounts of data is a bonus
  • Ability to take ownership, drive projects to completion, communicate proactively, and iterate through experimentation

Benefits

  • 20 days of PTO per year
  • Global team offsites
  • 100% covered PPO medical, vision, and dental for individuals and families
  • Healthy living/gym stipend and mobile phone bill stipend
  • Continuing education credits
  • 401(k) plan with employer contribution
  • Hybrid work in New York, NY
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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.