Staff Backend Engineer (Europe)

Kalepa; United States; Remote; USD 145,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech-driven insurance company is seeking a Core Engineer to tackle challenging problems in software development. The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience, be well-versed in Python, AWS, and distributed systems, and thrive in a dynamic team environment. The role offers a competitive salary, equity options, and opportunities for global team collaboration.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Significant equity options

20 days of PTO

Global team offsites

Student stipend

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Excellent development skills including design, debugging, and problem solving.
• Open to other OO languages like Java, C++, C#.

Responsibilities

• Solve problems at the intersection of data pipelines, distributed systems, and machine learning models.
• Collaborate with a global team of engineers on cutting-edge tech.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Development skills

Problem solving

Working with distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Python

AWS

PostgreSQL

Docker

Git

Job description

Commercial insurance is a trillion-dollar industry run out of Microsoft Outlook.

Kalepa's team members bring experience from top technology companies, including Facebook, Google, Amazon, Mastercard, and Uber. Kalepa is backed by leading VCs like IA Ventures and Inspired Capital.

Our Values:

Many organizations have a dusty list of corporate values that no one ever follows. Kalepa is not one of those companies. Our values are designed to unlock the potential of our employees.

Success at Kalepa is bred from five core principles:

• Hustle & Grit - We expect everyone at Kalepa to be excellent at what they do and relentless in pursuing their craft. There are no easy days. Kalepa’s exceptional speed and determination are our biggest differentiators: this is how we win.
• Customer Focus - We will ruthlessly prioritize the work that drives our clients’ growth, profitability, and efficiency. We are not building things just because they seem cool - we are here to solve our customers’ most strategic problems.
• Meritocracy - Too many exceptional people are stifled by corporate bureaucracies. At Kalepa, those people excel - and we reward tremendous results with rapid promotions and compensation growth.
• Transparency - We are honest with each other. We don’t believe in back-office politics and keeping employees in the dark. Transparency allows us to instantly cut to the heart of the matter and figure it out together.
• Experimentation - For many of the problems we face, no company has ever solved them before. We tackle these by quickly testing, measuring, and iterating to determine the path to success.

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.

Kalepa’s culture isn’t for everyone, and that’s ok. But for the people who are a fit, they can’t imagine working elsewhere.

About the role:

Salary range: $145k – $180k USD

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 work to solve interesting problems at the intersection of large and performant data pipelines, distributed systems, machine learning models, and robust infrastructure. You will be collaborating with a global team of full-stack, data, ML, and DevOps engineers who are considered polyglots flexing their ability to adapt as we scale.

You'll be right at home if you:

• Have a minimum of 8+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Have excellent development skills including design, debugging and problem solving.
• 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. (EC2, Lambda, etc.)
• Have worked with relational databases with a preference for PostgreSQL
• Love working on distributed systems creating scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure.
• 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.
• 20 days of PTO a year.
• Global team offsites.
• Student stipend.

Kalepa is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds.