Staff Backend Engineer, Kalepa
New Products
$200-235k
+ Equity options package
AI-driven commercial insurance provider
Open for applications
AI-driven commercial insurance provider
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$200-235k
+ Equity options package
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help commercial and specialty insurers bind with confidence.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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
- 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.
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Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Paul Monasterio
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Kalepa in 2018, Paul worked in Strategy and Measurement at Facebook and served as the VP at Applied Predictive Technologies.
Daniel Hillman
(Co-Founder & COO)Previously a VP of Sales at Mastercard and Applied PRedictive Technologies.
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