Senior Backend Engineer

Overview

About the Company
Kalepa is dedicated to enhancing underwriting performance and driving profitable premium growth for the commercial insurance industry. Kalepa’s AI-powered Copilot software enables underwriters to focus their time on the highest ROI opportunities and to quickly evaluate and optimally select risk. Kalepa is backed by IA Ventures, Inspired Capital, and leaders in technology and financial services.

About the job

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https://farcoder.com/description/67a89a121e5ec6ee92a1f8cc
Salary range: $70k – $110k

Equity range: 0.01% – 0.15%

What we are looking for: We are looking for smart programmers who love to code, seek challenging problems and appreciate recognition for excellent work. As a core engineer you will step into a greenfield opportunity where your efforts will have a massive impact. You will be working on cutting edge tech including NLP, firmographic data, entity resolution and much more.

In this role you will be working on our client facing application written in react + Redux as well as backend services created in Python + pSQL. In addition, you can expect to collaborate with a global team of backend, Data , ML, and DevOps engineers who are considered polyglots flexing their ability to adapt as we scale.

In July 2021 we raised a $14 million Series A funding round led by Inspired Capital, with participation from previous investor IA Ventures.

You’ll be right at home if you:

Have a minimum of 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
Have excellent development skills including design, debugging and problem solving.
Enjoy building front end components including end to end design/architecture.
You have experience in a modern FE framework – Preferably React/Redux.
You have experience in backend development and API Design.
You possess a bachelors or master’s degree in computer science or a related field.
We primarily use Python3 however are open to seeing your code in other OO languages (Java, C++, C#, etc).
Experience with AWS as we work with serverless technologies and asynchronous workflow.
Have worked with relational databases with a preference for PostgreSQL
Have worked with some of the following tools: Docker, Git, GitHub, Flask, NumPy,Pandas.

What you’ll get:
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.
Ground floor opportunity – an early member of Kalepa’s engineering leadership team
20 days of PTO a year.
Global team offsites.
Gym stipend. Mobile phone bill stipend.
Continuing education credits.
Kalepa’s team members bring experience from top technology, including Facebook, Google, Amazon, Mastercard, and Uber. Kalepa is backed by IA Ventures (early investors in Datadog, Wise, Better, Digital Ocean, TheTradeDesk, Flatiron Health, Komodo Health, etc.); former Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker’s Inspired Capital; and leaders in financial services and technology, including Gokul Rajaram from Doordash, Coinbase, and Square, Jackie Reses from Square, Affirm, and Alibaba, and Henry Ward from Carta.