Staff Backend Engineer - New Products (USA)

Kalepa is an AI Underwriting Platform transforming the commercial insurance industry. They are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to join their New Products team, where the engineer will develop innovative capabilities and solutions that enhance their product offerings.

Responsibilities:

• Help bring an entirely new suite of capabilities into our product
• Build quick prototypes and prepare polished feature demos that showcase what’s possible
• Iterate rapidly, test ideas early, and embrace a “move fast and break things” mindset to explore new opportunities
• Experiment with features that can expand our total addressable market, validate assumptions, and turn promising concepts into practical, shippable solutions

Requirements:

• Have 8+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with time spent building features from the ground up
• 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
• Communicate proactively, surfacing blockers, asking the right questions, keeping stakeholders in the loop
• 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
• Bonus: experience with LLMs/generative AI, distributed systems