KalepaKA

Senior Backend Engineer (USA)

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

Employee count: 11-50

Salary: 125k-175k USD

United States only
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Kalepa is an award-winning software start-up re-imagining the trillion-dollar commercial insurance industry. Our cross-functional teams leverage AI, cutting-edge tech, and tons of data to help commercial insurance underwriters Bind with Confidence.

Why We're Here:

For hundreds of years. businesses have tried to find the right policy to protect themselves and their employees. However, commercial insurance is plagued with a big problem: it's really complicated!

Insurers find it hard to understand the true exposures of businesses and to profitably provide them with policies that reflect that risk. Businesses - like contractors, hotels, restaurants, transportation fleets, real estate lessors, and others - struggle to find the coverage they need and are often left underinsured, uninsured, or paying too much for what they need.

That's where we come in. Our AI-powered underwriting workbench - Copilot - compiles everything underwriters need, and flags the exposures they need to know about. With Copilot, underwriters can find critical information in a flash; digitize their underwriting guidelines; triage, prioritize, and track their book; and automatically read and summarize key documents, like loss runs and supplemental applications – all out of the box. This means that insurance carriers grow faster and are more profitable, and businesses get the right coverage at the right rates. It’s the way insurance should work.

Salary range: $125k – $175k

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 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.

Kalepa's team members bring experience from top technology institutions, including Facebook, Google Amazon, Uber DoorDash, Mastercard, and MIT.

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.

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.
  • 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.
  • Can build data driven microservices leveraging RESTful API's.
  • 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.
  • 100% covered PPO medical, 100% covered vision and dental for individuals and families.
  • Healthy living/gym stipend. Mobile phone bill stipend.
  • Continuing education credits.
  • Home office stipend.
  • 401(k) plan with employer match.

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.

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About the job

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May 11, 2024

Posted on

Mar 12, 2024

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Salary: 125k-175k USD

Location requirements

Hiring timezones

United States +/- 0 hours

About Kalepa

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At Kalepa, we are the pioneers of Efficient Frontier Insurance.

Insurers find it difficult to understand the true exposures of businesses and to profitably provide them with policies that reflect that true risk. Businesses struggle to find the coverage they need and are often left underinsured, uninsured, or paying higher rates than needed.

We have developed a human-AI insurance platform specifically for the commercial insurance market which addresses these gaps and inefficiencies.

Our Copilot platform allows commercial insurers and brokers to better insure small and medium businesses with more accurate pricing and relevant coverage. This a win win for insurers and businesses alike.

Our Values

  • Customer Focus: We are laser focused on delivering Efficient Frontier Insurance and addressing the challenges of businesses and the carriers, brokers, and technology platforms which serve them. When our customers win, we win.

  • Hustle and Grit: Obstacles? Climb over them, around them, under them, through them, or simply eliminate them. With tenacity and perseverance, we can make the impossible a reality.

  • Transparency: We are direct. We know that clear and constant feedback is essential to improvement. The only way to the truth is for everyone to advance their ideas.

  • Meritocracy: Results speak volumes. Consistent excellence is key to our success as individuals and as Kalepa. We recognize, encourage, and reward merit often and with conviction.

  • Experimentation: The scientific method is in our DNA. We drive more value and increase impact every time we iterate. We balance data-driven ideas with accountability.

Employee benefits

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Home office budget

Home office stipend + Mobile phone bill stipend.

Learning and development budget

Continuing education credits to grow your skills.

Company offsites

Global company offsites so you can meet everyone in person.

Retirement benefits

Generous 401(k) with employer match to help you invest in your future.

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