Backend Engineer (Python, AI)

About this role

About The Company
Kalepa is a pioneering technology company operating within the $7 trillion global insurance industry. Our mission is to develop advanced artificial intelligence systems that enhance the core functions of insurance professionals, including underwriting, claims processing, pricing, operations, and distribution. We focus on creating professional-grade AI tools capable of reading, reasoning, deciding, and acting within real-world workflows over extended periods. By augmenting insurance professionals with intelligent systems, we enable better decision-making, automate routine tasks, and capture decision traces to inform future automation efforts.


Our products are already deployed with leading insurers, delivering measurable outcomes and expanding across various functions within organizations. Kalepa aspires to build the AI operating system for decision-making across the entire insurance sector, emphasizing correctness, trust, and real-world impact. Backed by prominent investors such as IA Ventures and Inspired Capital, our team comprises experts from companies like Facebook, Palantir, Google, Amazon, McKinsey, Mastercard, and Uber. Our company culture is rooted in values that promote hustle, transparency, meritocracy, customer impact, and relentless experimentation, fostering an environment where exceptional talent can thrive.


About The Role
We are seeking experienced backend engineers to join our Core Backend team. This role involves designing and maintaining reliable, scalable systems that handle fragmented yet high-value data crucial to our AI-driven decision-making platform. As a key member of this team, you will develop services, data models, pipelines, and evaluation loops that contribute directly to the core infrastructure of Kalepa’s AI ecosystem. Your work will improve data completeness, enhance decision transparency, and increase the value of our products.


The ideal candidate will have a strong ownership mindset, a pa...