192K–246K USD / year
Senior Backend Software Engineer
BackendRemote — US, Canada
Published on 2026-10-28
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About this role
Build and operate backend systems for AI-powered insurance workflows, processing large volumes of unstructured data for high-stakes decisions. Lead complex services, pipelines, data models, and customer-facing APIs with significant ownership.
About the company
Kalepa builds AI systems for insurers that help automate underwriting, risk analysis, and related insurance workflows. It serves carriers, MGAs, and brokers looking to speed up submission processing and decision-making.
The team
Core operations workflow team, focused on an extensible insurance workflow pipeline and central evaluation framework.
Stack
PythonAWSAWS LambdaAWS Step FunctionsPostgreSQLLLMs
What you'll do
- Lead design and delivery of backend services, data models, and asynchronous pipelines.
- Build scalable LLM-based systems for document processing with precision and explainability.
- Design customer-facing APIs and third-party integrations.
- Optimize database performance and manage technical debt.
- Lead incident response, debugging, and adoption of engineering best practices.
- Mentor engineers through reviews, pairing, and design feedback.
What we're looking for
- 5+ years of experience building and operating production backend systems.
- Strong Python skills or experience in another object-oriented language.
- Experience with AWS, serverless technologies, and asynchronous workflows.
- Strong relational database knowledge and performance tuning skills.
- Experience designing external-facing APIs or third-party integrations.
- Demonstrated ownership, communication, estimation, and problem-solving skills.
Nice to have
- Production experience with LLMs and deploying them at scale.
- Experience with document pipelines and large-scale data processing.
- Distributed systems experience.
- Experience in insurance, fintech, or another regulated, data-heavy domain.
Benefits
- Significant equity options package.
- 20 days of paid time off annually.
- Global team offsites.
- Healthy living or gym stipend and mobile phone stipend.
- Continuing education credits.
- For US employees: medical, vision, and dental coverage, plus a 401(k) employer contribution.