Staff Backend Engineer – Core Product

Kalepa

Backend Engineer joining Kalepa's Core Backend team to build reliable systems around AI-driven insurance data. Designing services and data models to enhance decision-making and product value.

Posted 5/13/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $190,000 - $255,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsEC2PostgresPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

We’re looking for strong backend engineers who love building reliable systems around fragmented, but high-value data.
As part of the Core Backend team, you’ll work on the systems at the center of Kalepa: designing services, data models, pipelines, and evaluation loops.
The goal is not just cleaner data, but an intelligence layer that makes better, faster, and more explainable decisions.
You’ll join a high-ownership team responsible for some of Kalepa’s most business-critical infrastructure.
Your work will make our data more complete, our decisions more transparent, and our products even more valuable.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Have 8+ years of software engineering 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.
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

Comp & perks

Competitive salary (based on experience level)*
Significant equity options package
Work with an ambitious, smart, global, and fun team to transform a $7T global industry.
20 days of PTO a year.
Global team offsites.
100% covered PPO medical, 100% covered vision and dental for individuals and families.
Healthy living/gym stipend. Mobile phone bill stipend.
Continuing education credits.
401(k) plan with employer contribution (regardless of employee contribution)

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Hard Skills & Tools

Pythonsystem designdebuggingproblem-solvingserverless technologiesLambdaEC2asynchronous workflowsrelational databasesPostgreSQL

Soft Skills

hustlegritownershipproactive communicationstakeholder managementexperimentationmeasuring resultsiterating quickly