Junior Backend Engineer

Who you are

• We are looking for smart engineers who love to code, seek challenging problems, and appreciate recognition for excellent work
• Have approximately 1 year of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production systems
• Have strong fundamentals in at least one programming language and know Python
• Have a degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Enjoy writing code and solving non-trivial technical problems
• Are curious about AI, data, and real-world applications of machine learning
• Take ownership and are comfortable working with ambiguity
• Move fast, learn quickly, and value high standards
• Appreciate direct feedback, meritocracy, and transparency

What the job involves

• As an engineer at Kalepa, you'll work on real product and R&D systems at the intersection of software engineering and applied AI
• You will contribute to backend services, data and ML pipelines that support our product used by commercial insurance underwriters
• You'll help build and improve systems that ingest, process, and reason over large volumes of structured and unstructured data, including documents, third-party sources, and model outputs
• This is hands-on engineering work on problems that matter to the business, with ownership of features end to end
• You'll collaborate closely with experienced full-stack, backend, ML, and platform engineers, and you'll be expected to contribute to how production systems are designed, built, tested, and operated at scale
• We're a small team where individual contributions have an outsized impact on both our technology and our business