Kalepa

Senior Backend Engineer – Client Integrations

Kalepa

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $185,000 - $215,000 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

  • Have 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-solvingcollaborationgrithustledriveadaptabilitystakeholder management