Kalepa

Forward Deployed Engineer

Kalepa
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5 days ago
New York, NY, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$185k - $255k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Embed directly with customers to integrate Kalepa’s software into their systems.
  • Propose technical approaches, build working solutions, and adapt implementations to customer systems and data.
  • Develop and use external-facing APIs and integrations with third-party systems.
  • Own projects through completion with minimal oversight while communicating proactively with stakeholders.
  • Experiment, measure results, and iterate on solutions to ambiguous customer problems.
  • Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and customer success to deliver customer impact.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of software engineering experience, ideally including direct customer work.
  • Experience building or using external-facing APIs or designing third-party system integrations.
  • Strong ownership, communication, project execution, system design, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
  • Proficiency in Python; strong candidates from other object-oriented programming backgrounds may also be considered.
  • Experience with serverless technologies including Lambda and EC2, asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments.
  • Strong knowledge of relational databases and performance tuning, ideally PostgreSQL.
  • Experience with LLMs/generative AI and distributed systems is a bonus.

Benefits

  • $185,000–$255,000 USD salary range, with final compensation varying by experience, interview performance, and geographic location.
  • Significant equity options package.
  • 100% covered medical, vision, and dental insurance, plus other benefits.
  • 20 days of paid time off per year.
  • Global team offsites.
  • Healthy living/gym stipend and mobile phone bill stipend.
  • Continuing education credits.
  • 401(k) plan with employer contribution regardless of employee contribution.

Categories

Forward Deployed
Kalepa

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.

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