Staff Backend Engineer - Submission Processing (Europe)

Kalepa
Europe
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 100,000 - 185,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Ownership","Communication","Experimentation","Problem-solving","Grit"]

Own the end-to-end design and scaling of backend systems for submission processing, where LLM-based pipelines extract precise information from large volumes of unstructured data. Work with the Submission Processing team at the intersection of AI and backend engineering—making architectural decisions under ambiguity, setting technical direction, and delivering outcomes insurers depend on for high-stakes decisions.

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Kalepa
Kalepa
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Staff Backend Engineer - Submission Processing (Europe)

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end design and scaling of backend systems for submission processing, where LLM-based pipelines extract precise information from large volumes of unstructured data. Work with the Submission Processing team at the intersection of AI and backend engineering—making architectural decisions under ambiguity, setting technical direction, and delivering outcomes insurers depend on for high-stakes decisions.
Location: Europe
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and scale LLM-based backend systems for submission processing and extraction pipelines.
  • •Process billions of highly unstructured data points daily to surface insights for insurers’ high-stakes decisions.
  • •Make architectural decisions under ambiguity and set technical direction for the team.
  • •Own end-to-end outcomes with minimal oversight and drive projects to completion.
  • •Collaborate with the team to iterate quickly through experimentation and measurement.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 100,000 - 185,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityPaid LeaveGym MembershipLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of software engineering experience with strong system design, debugging, and problem-solving fundamentals.
  • •Proven experience working with LLMs in production and deploying them at scale.
  • •Experience with AWS and serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments.
  • •Proficiency in Python (primary stack) and comfort with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL.
  • •Comfort with ambiguity, high ownership, proactive communication, and fast experimentation/iteration.
Experience:8+ yearsInsuranceArtificial intelligenceLLMBackend engineering
Skills:OwnershipCommunicationExperimentationProblem-solvingGrit
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonLLMsAWSLambdaEC2ServerlessAsynchronous workflowsCloud environmentsPostgreSQLRelational databases

Company Brief

Kalepa
Provides a lending decisioning and credit automation platform that helps banks and lenders automate SME loan origination, underwriting, and risk decisioning using data aggregation and analytics.
Industry: Lending
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