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Senior Backend Engineer (Client Integrations)

Kalepa

On-siteNew York City, NYsenior$185k–$215kPosted 8h ago

Job description

  • We are looking for smart engineers who love to code, seek challenging problems, and appreciate recognition for excellent work

  • As part of the Client Integrations team, you will work on the external-facing APIs that power our customers’ core workflows

  • Your day-to-day will involve designing and building API endpoints, improving database and query performance, and integrating with a wide range of third-party services

  • You’ll translate product requirements into reliable business logic, help diagnose and resolve customer issues, and contribute to making our platform faster, more stable, and easier to use

  • You’ll collaborate with a global team of full-stack, data, ML, and DevOps 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- Have strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving

  • Take full ownership of your work and drive projects to completion with minimal oversight

  • Have 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with time spent building external-facing APIs or designing integrations with 3rd party systems

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

  • Have experience with serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments

  • Embody hustle and grit, you’re excellent at your craft and relentless in pursuing it

  • Bonus: experience with LLMs/generative AI, distributed systems

  • Are comfortable with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL

  • 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