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Staff Backend Engineer - Core Product (Europe)

3 weeks, 5 days ago
Europe
Full-time
Lead
Backend Engineer
Software Development
AWS EC2 Generative AI LLM PostgreSQL Python Serverless System Design
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Kalepa

Kalepa

Kalepa's AI underwriting solutions empower P&C insurers to confidently assess risks and boost profitability with precision.

Insurance
11-50
Founded 2018
$14M raised
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Description

  • Design backend services, data models, pipelines, and evaluation loops for core systems.
  • Build reliable infrastructure around fragmented, high-value data used in insurance workflows.
  • Improve data completeness, decision transparency, and product value through backend systems.
  • Own business-critical infrastructure as part of a high-ownership Core Backend team.
  • Drive projects to completion with minimal oversight and proactive stakeholder communication.
  • Test ideas, measure results, and iterate quickly on unsolved technical problems.
  • Collaborate across the company to support better, faster, and more explainable decisions.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving.
  • Experience taking full ownership of work and driving projects to completion with minimal oversight.
  • Proactive communication skills, including surfacing blockers and keeping stakeholders informed.
  • Comfort with experimentation, measurement, and rapid iteration.
  • Strong proficiency in Python, with openness to candidates from other object-oriented language backgrounds.
  • Experience with serverless technologies such as Lambda and EC2.
  • Experience with asynchronous workflows and cloud environments.
  • Comfort working with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL.
  • Bonus: experience with LLMs or generative AI.
  • Bonus: experience with distributed systems.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary based on experience, with a stated range of $100k–$185k USD.
  • Significant equity options package.
  • 20 days of PTO per year.
  • Healthy living and gym stipend.
  • Mobile phone bill stipend.
  • Continuing education credits.
  • Global team offsites and opportunities to work with a distributed international team.

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