Forward Deployed Engineer

Join Kalepa as a Forward Deployed Engineer, where you'll work directly with customers to integrate our software into their systems and drive key results for some of the largest insurers in the world. This high-impact, customer-facing role combines relationship building, hands-on software development, analytics, and strategy. You'll have a global team of engineers, product managers, and customer success behind you, but you'll be accountable for turning each client's problem into a working solution.

• Integrate Kalepa's software into customer systems and ensure they receive full value from the platform.
• Propose technical approaches, build solutions, and adapt them as customer systems and data demand.
• Drive projects to completion with minimal oversight, taking full ownership of your work.

• 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
• 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
• Thrive on experimentation: you're comfortable testing ideas, measuring results, and iterating quickly on problems no one has solved before
• 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