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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Kalepa for IT)

Kalepa

Skills

Required

  • relational databases
  • PostgreSQL
  • system design
  • debugging
  • software engineering
  • LLMs/generative AI
  • distributed systems
  • Python
  • testing ideas

Preferred

  • serverless
  • Lambda
  • EC2
  • asynchronous workflows
  • cloud environments

Kalepa, a cutting-edge technology company revolutionizing the insurance industry. As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, you will work directly with customers to integrate our software into their systems and ensure they are getting full value from the platform. This high-impact, customer-facing role combines relationship building, hands-on software development, analytics, and strategy to drive key results for some of the largest insurers in the world. You will have a global team of engineers, product managers, and customer success behind you, but you will be accountable for turning each client's problem into a working solution.

Responsibilities

  • Integrate Kalepa's software into customer systems and ensure they derive full value from the platform.
  • Propose technical approaches, build solutions, and adapt them as customer systems and data evolve.
  • Drive projects to completion with minimal oversight, taking full ownership of your work.
  • Communicate proactively, surfacing blockers, asking the right questions, keeping stakeholders in the loop
  • Take full ownership of your work and drive projects to completion with minimal oversight

Requirements

  • Have strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving
  • Have strong knowledge of relational databases and their performance tuning, ideally PostgreSQL
  • Have 4+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with time spent working directly with customers
  • Are comfortable with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL

Bonus: experience with LLMs/generative AI, distributed systems

  • Know Python (our main stack), though we're open to strong candidates from other OO backgrounds
  • Thrive on experimentation: you're comfortable testing ideas, measuring results, and iterating quickly on problems no one has solved before

Preferred

  • Experience building and using external-facing APIs or designing integrations with 3rd party systems
  • Have experience with serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments

Pay

USD 213,000 - 314,000