Your Underwriting Copilot
Staff Backend Engineer – Submission Processing
Location
United States
Posted
1 day ago
Salary
$200K - $290K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Backend Engineer – Submission Processing
Kalepa
• We are looking for engineers who enjoy going deep on hard problems and owning end-to-end outcomes. • As a Staff engineer on the Submission Processing team, you’ll work at the intersection of AI and backend engineering and have major ownership and agency: design the systems, make architectural calls under ambiguity, and play a key role in setting the technical direction for the team. • You’ll be working on building and scaling LLM-based systems that process billions of highly unstructured data points on a daily basis, extract precise information, and surface insights that insurers rely on for high-stakes decisions. • This is a problem the industry hasn't solved effectively yet, and you'll be working on cutting-edge challenges that require creativity and ambition. We're a small team where individual contributions have an outsized impact on both our technology and our business.
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.
- Have worked with LLMs in production and understand what it takes to deploy them at scale.
- Have experience with AWS and serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments.
- Know Python (our main stack), though we’re open to strong candidates from other OO backgrounds
- Are comfortable with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL.
- Are excited by problems others are struggling with.
- Bonus: experience with document pipelines and processing large amounts of data
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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