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Salary range: $192K - $246K*
We are looking for smart engineers who love to code, seek challenging problems and appreciate recognition for excellent work. As part of the Core UX team, you will focus on refining existing product functionality to deliver an exceptional user experience. Your work will center on ensuring consistency across the product, maintaining a cohesive look and feel, and implementing performance improvements that directly impact end users. You’ll be paying close attention to the layout, interactions, responsiveness, and visual polish, that collectively give the product a premium, well-crafted feel. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys iterative improvement, cares deeply about quality, and wants to shape the everyday experience of our users.
You'll collaborate with a global team of full-stack, data, ML, and DevOps engineers to build scalable solutions as we continue to grow. We're a small team where individual contributions have an outsized impact on both our technology and our business.
You'll be right at home if you:
- Have 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with a track record of improving and polishing functionalities to bring premium user 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.
- You have experience in a modern FE framework, preferably React.
- Know Javascript, Typescript, or Python, though we're open to strong candidates from other OO backgrounds.
- Have experience with serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments.
- Are comfortable with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL.
- Bonus: experience with LLMs/generative AI, distributed systems.
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 $7T global industry.
- 20 days of PTO a year.
- Global team offsites.
- 100% covered PPO medical, 100% covered vision and dental for individuals and families.
- Healthy living/gym stipend. Mobile phone bill stipend.
- Continuing education credits.
- 401(k) plan with employer contribution (regardless of employee contribution)
*The salary range listed is an estimate and will vary based on a variety of factors. Final compensation will be determined during the offer stage based on relevant experience, performance during the interview process, and geographic location, and may therefore differ from the posted range.
About the company
Kalepa
We're on a mission to transform the $7 trillion insurance industry11-50 Employees
New York City
11-50
Startup
SaaS
Artificial Intelligence
Insurance
Risk Management
Big Data Analytics
B2B
Early Stage Startup in initial stages
Employees joined from
Amazon
Mastercard
Applied Predictive Technologies
Wonder
OneTok
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Funding
AMOUNT RAISED
$16M
FUNDED OVER
2 rounds
Rounds
A $14000000
Series A - Sep 2021+1
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Perks
Excellent health insurance We provide excellent health, dental, and vision insurance. Kalepa covers 100% of the fees for health, dental, and vision insurance fees for individuals and families.
Dependent benefits We offer a pre-tax dependent care FSA.
Flexible hours We care about productivity, not hours. While we value collaboration in the office, we are a global team. Kalepa employees can work from home (or from the beach, if they choose to) when needed
Remote and global-friendly culture Team members across the US, Europe, and Asia.
Fitness / healthy lifestyle benefits We give our employees a monthly gym/ healthy living reimbursement
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Founders
Daniel Hillman Founder
Paul Monasterio CEO • 9 years
New York City
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