About this role
About Kalepa:
Commercial insurance is a trillion-dollar industry still run out of Microsoft Outlook.
Kalepa is changing that.
Kalepa is an AI Underwriting Platform built to deliver Professional-Grade AI in production - helping the world's most important insurers centralize and prioritize submission data, surface critical risk insights, and make faster, more confident decisions. Customers see meaningful improvements to both speed and portfolio quality as soon as they implement Kalepa - so much so that clients call it “truly an underwriter’s dream.”
Kalepa is backed by leading investors such as IA Ventures and Inspired Capital, and our team brings experience from Facebook, Google, Amazon, Mastercard, and Uber.
Our Values (This is important):
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.
About the Role
Salary: $15/hr USD
We are looking for smart engineers who love to code, seek challenging problems, and appreciate recognition for excellent work.
As an intern at Kalepa, you’ll work on real product and R&D systems at the intersection of software engineering and applied AI. Depending on your interests and strengths, you may contribute to backend services, data and ML pipelines, or full-stack features that support our AI Copilot used by commercial insurance underwriters.
You’ll help build and improve systems that ingest, process, and reason over large volumes of structured and unstructured data, including documents, third-party sources, and model outputs. This is hands-on engineering work on problems that matter to the business, not isolated or artificial intern tasks.
You’ll collaborate closely with experienced full-stack, backend, ML, and platform engineers, learning how production systems are designed, built, tested, and operated at scale while contributing meaningful code along the way. We’re a small team where individual contributions have an outsized impact on both our technology and our business.
You’ll Be a Good Fit If You:
- Are a student in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or a related field
- Enjoy writing code and solving non-trivial technical problems
- Have strong fundamentals in at least one programming language (Python preferred, but not required)
- Are curious about AI, data, and real-world applications of machine learning
- Take ownership and are comfortable working with ambiguity
- Move fast, learn quickly, and value high standards
- Appreciate direct feedback, meritocracy, and transparency
What We Offer:
- Paid internship with competitive compensation (USD) on hourly basis
- Hands-on experience building core systems at a fast-growing AI startup
- A steep learning curve through direct work on core systems, compressing months of experience into a short internship
- Fully remote work from Europe
- Onsite team events in Warsaw
- Real responsibility and production impact from day one
- Mentorship from experienced engineers
- Potential full-time offer after the internship
Other facts
About Kalepa
Kalepa drives profitable premium growth for the commercial insurance industry. Our AI-powered platform helps underwriters focus on the highest-value opportunities, evaluate risk faster, and make smarter decisions.
Backed by IA Ventures, Inspired Capital, and leaders in technology and financial services, Kalepa is shaping the future of commercial insurance through innovation and data-driven insights.
Kalepa is backed by IA Ventures, Inspired Capital, and leaders in technology and financial services.
Kalepa drives profitable premium growth for the commercial insurance industry. Our AI-powered platform helps underwriters focus on the highest-value opportunities, evaluate risk faster, and make smarter decisions.
Backed by IA Ventures, Inspired Capital, and leaders in technology and financial services, Kalepa is shaping the future of commercial insurance through innovation and data-driven insights.
Kalepa is backed by IA Ventures, Inspired Capital, and leaders in technology and financial services.
Employee benefits
What you'll do
- As an intern, you will work on real product and R&D systems, contributing to backend services, data and ML pipelines, or full-stack features. You will collaborate closely with experienced engineers and help build systems that process large volumes of data.
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