Senior Backend Engineer

Salary range: $96k – $144k

Equity range: 0.01% – 0.15%

What we are looking for:

We are looking for smart programmers who love to code seek challenging problems and appreciate recognition for excellent work. As a core engineer you will step into a greenfield opportunity where your efforts will have a massive impact. You will be working on cutting edge tech including NLP firmographic data entity resolution and much more.

In this role you will work to solve interesting problems at the intersection of large and performant data pipelines distributed systems machine learning models and robust infrastructure. You will be collaborating with a global team of full-stack data ML and DevOps engineers who are considered polyglots flexing their ability to adapt as we scale.

You'll be right at home if you:

• Have a minimum of 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience.

• Have excellent development skills including design debugging and problem solving.

• You possess a bachelors or master's degree in computer science or a related field.

• We primarily use Python3 however are open to seeing your code in other OO languages (Java C++ C# etc).

• Experience with AWS as we work with serverless technologies and asynchronous workflow. (EC2 Lambda etc.)

• Have worked with relational databases with a preference for PostgreSQL

• Love working on distributed systems creating scalable fault-tolerant infrastructure.

• Can build data driven microservices leveraging RESTful API's.

• Have worked with some of the following tools: Docker Git GitHub Flask NumPyPandas.

What you’ll get:

• Competitive salary (based on experience level).

• Significant equity options package.

• Work with an ambitious smart global and fun team to transform a $1T global industry.

• Ground floor opportunity – early member of Kalepa’s engineering team

• 20 days of PTO a year.

• Global team offsites.

• Gym reimbursement. Phone reimbursement.

• Student stipend.

Kalepa's team members bring experience from top technology including Facebook Google Amazon Mastercard and Uber. Kalepa is backed by IA Ventures (early investors in Datadog Wise Better Digital Ocean TheTradeDesk Flatiron Health Komodo Health etc.); former Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker’s Inspired Capital; and leaders in financial services and technology including Gokul Rajaram from Doordash Coinbase and Square Jackie Reses from Square Affirm and Alibaba and Henry Ward from Carta.