Kalepa

Senior Full Stack Engineer – Core UX

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 SystemsEC2JavaScriptPostgresPythonReactTypeScript

About the role

  • Focus on refining existing product functionality to deliver an exceptional user experience
  • Collaborate with a global team of full-stack, data, ML, and DevOps engineers to build scalable backend solutions
  • Maintain a cohesive look and feel, and implementing performance improvements
  • Pay close attention to layout, interactions, responsiveness, and visual polish

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with a track record of improving and polishing functionalities to bring premium user experience
  • 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.
  • You have experience in a modern FE framework, preferably React.
  • Know Javascript, Typescript, or Python, 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
  • Phone reimbursement
  • Gym reimbursement
  • Student stipend

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
software engineeringsystem designdebuggingproblem-solvingReactJavascriptTypescriptPythonserverless technologiesPostgreSQL
Soft skills
user experienceownershipcommunicationexperimentationcollaborationattention to detailproactiveiterationgrithustle