Staff Backend Engineer, Kalepa

New Products

$145-185k

+ Equity options package

Python

Postgres

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Europe, UK

AI-driven commercial insurance provider

Be an early applicant

AI-driven commercial insurance provider

21-100 employees

FintechB2BArtificial IntelligenceInsurance

Be an early applicant

$145-185k

+ Equity options package

Python

Postgres

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Europe, UK

21-100 employees

FintechB2BArtificial IntelligenceInsurance

Company mission

Kalepa's mission is to leverage its human-AI commercial insurance platform to help identify the true risks of businesses and find the insurance coverage that they need.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

We are looking for smart engineers who love to code, seek challenging problems, and appreciate recognition for excellent work
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

What the job involves

As part of the New Products team, you will help bring an entirely new suite of capabilities into our product
Your work will range from building quick prototypes to preparing polished feature demos that showcase what’s possible
You’ll iterate rapidly, test ideas early, and embrace a “move fast and break things” mindset to explore new opportunities
This role involves experimenting with features that can expand our total addressable market, validating assumptions, and turning promising concepts into practical, shippable solutions
You'll join a small, high-ownership group with the autonomy to drive innovation and directly influence how AI transforms an entire industry
Your contributions will have an outsized impact on both our technology and our business

Our take

Insurance products that are underwritten at the Efficient Frontier are essential for businesses to mitigate financial risk, but one-size-fits-all approaches to insurance results in many coverage plans being unfairly priced. The reason for this is that whilst businesses each present their own unique set of hazards, identifying them for each company is an incredibly lengthy process for human underwriters.

Kalepa leverages human-interrupted artificial intelligence to identify the true hazards of a business through a data-driven approach and provide insurance that is priced accordingly. The company claims that it reduces the time that insurance providers take to provide quotes by over 40% and helps businesses save over $15M in losses, whilst also improving coverage uptake for insurance providers.

Whilst the commercial insurance sector is certainly oversaturated, Kalepa stands out by providing its AI-driven underwriting platform to insurance providers, helping them compete through faster quotes and lower prices. In addition to its underwriting platform, the company also provides its solutions in the form of embeddable APIs, and recently formed a new MGA that will underwrite excess casualty risks using Everspan paper.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

11% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.9)

Company

Company benefits

Very aggressive bonus structure, designed to reward exceptional performance
Significant equity options package
Work with an ambitious, smart, global, and fun team to transform a $1T global industry
Excellent benefits: 100% covered medical, 100% covered vision and dental, very generous PTO, and others
Global team offsites

Company HQ

Flatiron District, New York, NY

Leadership

Paul Monasterio

(CEO)

Vice President of Applied Predictive Technologies from 2010 to 2016. Experience working in Strategy and Measurement for Facebook.

Daniel Hillman

(COO)

Vice President of Sales for Applied Predictive Technologies from 2009 to 2015. Vice President of Sales for Mastercard from 2015 to 2018.

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