Senior Backend engineer (remoto)

Insurance is a $7T global industry built on professional labor: underwriting, claims, pricing, operations, and distribution. We create professional-grade AI systems for insurers: software that can read, reason, decide, and act inside real workflows and operate over long-time horizons. Our products are already in production with leading insurers, driving measurable outcomes and expanding across functions. The opportunity is far broader than any single workflow: to build the AI operating system for decision-making across insurance. Kalepa is backed by leading investors such as IA Ventures and Inspired Capital, and our team brings experience from Facebook, Palantir, Google, Amazon, McKinsey, Mastercard, and Uber.

Kalepa is not one of those companies. Hustle and Determination - We hire people who take full ownership of their craft and relentlessly pursue excellence with speed and determination. If it doesn't drive speed, accuracy, or profitability for our customers, we don't build it.

We have a high bar but we reward excellence with rapid growth. We say what needs to be said, even when it's hard. We tackle them by testing quickly, measuring rigorously, and iterating until we find the path forward. In addition to our NY office, we have remote employees speaking 10+ languages across the globe. But we invest in bringing our people together both for regional meetups and global offsites (2021 - Playa Del Carmen | 2022 - Rome | 2023 - Buenos Aires | 2024 - Lisbon | 2025 - Cartagena).

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 collaborate with a global team of full-stack, data, ML, and DevOps engineers to build scalable backend solutions as we continue to grow. We're a small team where individual contributions have an outsized impact on both our technology and our business.

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.

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.

Work with an ambitious, smart, global, and fun team to transform a $1T global industry.

• Global team offsites.
• Student stipend.

* Final compensation will be determined during the offer stage based on relevant experience, performance during the interview process, and geographic location, and may therefore differ from the posted range.