Many organizations have a dusty list of corporate values that no one ever follows. Kalepa is not one of those companies. Our values are designed to unlock the potential of our employees
Success at Kalepa is bred from five core principles
Hustle and Determination - We hire people who take full ownership of their craft and relentlessly pursue excellence with speed and determination. We choose the hard problems and do not give up. This is the foundation of how we work and how we win
Deliver Customer Impact - We're obsessed with customer impact. Every feature, every line of code, every decision is measured against one question: does this help insurers make better decisions? If it doesn't drive speed, accuracy, or profitability for our customers, we don't build it
Meritocracy - We're building something exceptional, and that requires exceptional people and ideas. We have a high bar but we reward excellence with rapid growth
Transparency - We value honest, transparent communication over politics. We challenge ideas, not people. We say what needs to be said, even when it's hard. This is how we solve problems fast and find the truth
Experiment Relentlessly - Many of the problems we face have never been solved before. We tackle them by testing quickly, measuring rigorously, and iterating until we find the path forward. Speed of learning is our advantage
In addition to our NY office, we have remote employees speaking 10+ languages across the globe. But we invest in bringing our people together both for regional meetups and global offsites (2021 - Playa Del Carmen | 2022 - Rome | 2023 - Buenos Aires | 2024 - Lisbon | 2025 - Cartagena)
Kalepa’s culture isn’t for everyone, and that’s ok. But for the people who are a fit, they can’t imagine working elsewhere
Have 8+ years of software engineering experience
Embody hustle and grit, you're 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, keeping stakeholders in the loop
Thrive on experimentation: you're comfortable testing ideas, measuring results, and iterating quickly on problems no one has solved before
Have strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving
Have worked with LLMs in production and understand what it takes to deploy them at scale
Have experience with AWS and serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments
Know Python (our main stack), though we’re open to strong candidates from other OO backgrounds
Are comfortable with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL
Are excited by problems others are struggling with
Bonus: experience with document pipelines and processing large amounts of data