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Staff Backend Engineer – Core Product
Location
United States
Posted
14 days ago
Salary
$190K - $255K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Backend Engineer – Core Product
Kalepa
• We’re looking for strong backend engineers who love building reliable systems around fragmented, but high-value data. • As part of the Core Backend team, you’ll work on the systems at the center of Kalepa: designing services, data models, pipelines, and evaluation loops. • The goal is not just cleaner data, but an intelligence layer that makes better, faster, and more explainable decisions. • You’ll join a high-ownership team responsible for some of Kalepa’s most business-critical infrastructure. • Your work will make our data more complete, our decisions more transparent, and our products even more valuable.
Job Requirements
- Have 8+ years of software engineering experience.
- 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.
Benefits
- Competitive salary (based on experience level)*
- Significant equity options package
- Work with an ambitious, smart, global, and fun team to transform a $7T global industry.
- 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.
- 401(k) plan with employer contribution (regardless of employee contribution)
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