Senior Full Stack Engineer - Core UX

Senior Full Stack Engineer - Core UX (New York)

New York, NY. Hybrid

Commercial insurance is a trillion-dollar industry run out of Microsoft Outlook.

Kalepa's team members bring experience from top technology companies, including Facebook, Google, Amazon, Mastercard, and Uber. Kalepa is backed by leading VCs like IA Ventures and Inspired Capital.

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 & Grit - We expect everyone at Kalepa to be excellent at what they do and relentless in pursuing their craft. There are no easy days. Kalepa’s exceptional speed and determination are our biggest differentiators: this is how we win.
• Customer Focus - We will ruthlessly prioritize the work that drives our clients’ growth, profitability, and efficiency. We are not building things just because they seem cool - we are here to solve our customers’ most strategic problems.
• Meritocracy - Too many exceptional people are stifled by corporate bureaucracies. At Kalepa, those people excel - and we reward tremendous results with rapid promotions and compensation growth.
• Transparency - We are honest with each other. We don’t believe in back-office politics and keeping employees in the dark. Transparency allows us to instantly cut to the heart of the matter and figure it out together.
• Experimentation - For many of the problems we face, no company has ever solved them before. We tackle these by quickly testing, measuring, and iterating to determine the path to success.

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.

Salary range: $185K - $215K*

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 Dev Ops engineers to build scalable backend 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.

Hybrid:
Office/Remote

• Refine existing product functionality to deliver an exceptional user experience, ensuring consistency and a cohesive look and feel across the product.
• Improve performance, layout, interactions, and visual polish to provide a premium user experience.
• Collaborate with a global team of engineers (full-stack, data, ML, and Dev Ops) to build scalable backend solutions.
• Contribute to an environment where individual contributions have outsized impact on technology and business.

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of polishing functionalities to enhance user experience.
• Hustle and grit; excellent craft and relentless pursuit of results.
• Ownership mindset; drive projects to completion with minimal oversight.
• Proactive communication; surface blockers and keep stakeholders in the loop.
• Experience with experimentation: test ideas, measure results, and iterate quickly on novel problems.
• Strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and…