Kalepa is transforming the trillion-dollar commercial insurance industry by using AI to empower underwriters to make smarter, faster, and more accurate decisions. The company's AI Copilot platform improves insurers' top and bottom lines, enabling them to process significantly more accounts daily.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with time spent building features from the ground up.
- Strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving.
- Proficiency in Python (our main stack), though we're open to strong candidates from other OO backgrounds.
- Experience with serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments.
- Comfort with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL.
- Bonus: experience with LLMs/generative AI.
- Bonus: experience with distributed systems.
Responsibilities
- Help bring an entirely new suite of capabilities into the product.
- Build quick prototypes and prepare polished feature demos that showcase what’s possible.
- Iterate rapidly, test ideas early, and embrace a 'move fast and break things' mindset to explore new opportunities.
- Experiment with features that can expand the total addressable market.
- Validate assumptions and turn promising concepts into practical, shippable solutions.
- Work on a small, high-ownership group with autonomy to drive innovation.
- Directly influence how AI transforms the insurance industry.
Other
- Embody hustle and grit, being 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, and keeping stakeholders in the loop.
- Thriving on experimentation and being comfortable testing ideas, measuring results, and iterating quickly on problems no one has solved before.
- Be a cultural fit for Kalepa's values: Hustle & Grit, Customer Focus, Meritocracy, Transparency, and Experimentation.
