Senior Backend Engineer – Client Integrations
Kalepa
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $170,000 - $210,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
CloudDistributed SystemsEC2PostgresPython
About the role
- 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.
Requirements
- 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.
- Bonus: experience with LLMs/generative AI, distributed systems.
Benefits
- Competitive salary (based on experience level)*
- Significant equity options package
- Work with an ambitious, smart, global, and fun team to transform a $1T global industry.
- 20 days of PTO a year.
- Global team offsites.
- Gym reimbursement. Phone reimbursement.
- Student stipend.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
software engineeringAPI developmentsystem designdebuggingproblem-solvingPythonserverless technologiesasynchronous workflowsrelational databasesPostgreSQL
Soft skills
ownershipcommunicationexperimentationproactive problem-solvingcollaborationgrithustle