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Kalepa

Staff Backend Engineer – Submission Processing

Kalepa

Staff Backend Engineer focusing on backend systems and AI integration at Kalepa. Responsible for design, development, and scaling of LLM-based systems.

Posted 7/8/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $200,000 - $290,000 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates extensive experience in software engineering with a focus on system design, debugging, and problem-solving. Proficient in deploying LLM-based systems at scale, utilizing AWS and serverless technologies, while effectively communicating and driving projects to completion.

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8+ Years Of Software Engineering ExperienceLLM Deployment At ScaleAWS And Serverless TechnologiesPython ProgrammingSystem Design And Debugging

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Hard Skills
Software EngineeringSystem DesignDebuggingProblem-SolvingLLM DeploymentPythonRelational DatabasesPostgreSQLAsynchronous WorkflowsCloud Environments
Soft Skills
OwnershipProactive CommunicationExperimentationCreativityGrit
Tools & Technologies
AWSLambdaEC2Serverless Technologies
Industry Keywords
Submission ProcessingData ProcessingUnstructured DataDocument PipelinesHigh-Stakes Decisions

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSCloudEC2PostgresPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • We are looking for engineers who enjoy going deep on hard problems and owning end-to-end outcomes.
  • As a Staff engineer on the Submission Processing team, you’ll work at the intersection of AI and backend engineering and have major ownership and agency: design the systems, make architectural calls under ambiguity, and play a key role in setting the technical direction for the team.
  • You’ll be working on building and scaling LLM-based systems that process billions of highly unstructured data points on a daily basis, extract precise information, and surface insights that insurers rely on for high-stakes decisions.
  • This is a problem the industry hasn't solved effectively yet, and you'll be working on cutting-edge challenges that require creativity and ambition. We're a small team where individual contributions have an outsized impact on both our technology and our business.

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.
  • Have worked with LLMs in production and understand what it takes to deploy them at scale.
  • Have experience with AWS and serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments.
  • Know Python (our main stack), though we’re open to strong candidates from other OO backgrounds
  • Are comfortable with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL.
  • Are excited by problems others are struggling with.
  • Bonus: experience with document pipelines and processing large amounts of data

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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