Staff Backend Engineer - New Products (Europe)

Kalepa is an AI Underwriting Platform built to deliver Professional-Grade AI in production for the commercial insurance industry.

About the role (Salary: $145k-$185k USD):
We are looking for smart engineers who love to code, seek challenging problems, and appreciate recognition for excellent work. As part of the New Products team, you will help bring an entirely new suite of capabilities into our product.

You'll be right at home if you:
- Have 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Take full ownership of your work and drive projects to completion
- Thrive on experimentation: testing ideas, measuring results, and iterating
- Know Python (our main stack)
- 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

What you'll get:
- Competitive salary ($145k-$185k)
- Significant equity options package
- 20 days of PTO a year
- Global team offsites
- Gym reimbursement and phone reimbursement