About Kalepa:
Commercial insurance is a trillion-dollar industry run out of Microsoft Outlook. Kalepa is upending this.
Our state-of-the-art AI Copilot platform empowers underwriters to make smarter, faster, and more accurate decisions. Our AI is designed to deliver real results - insurers literally see massive improvements to their top and bottom lines as soon as they implement Copilot. That’s why our clients call Copilot “truly an underwriter’s dream” and proclaim that Copilot helps them “almost double the amount of accounts they can look at in the day."
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.
Our Values:
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.
- Customer Focus: We will ruthlessly prioritize the work that drives our clients’ growth, profitability, and efficiency.
- Meritocracy: At Kalepa, exceptional people excel and are rewarded with rapid promotions and compensation growth.
- Transparency: We are honest with each other, allowing us to cut to the heart of the matter.
- Experimentation: We tackle problems by quickly testing, measuring, and iterating.
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:Base Salary: $156K - $204K
Equity: 0.05% to 0.2%
We are looking for a Tech Lead/Manager to lead a small team (4 to 5 people) of experienced engineers. TLM at Kalepa is a blend of hands-on software engineering and leadership. The candidate needs to be able to dive deep into problems, effectively delegate responsibilities, grow and develop talented engineers, and cultivate a results-driven, high-performance culture.
Areas of responsibility:
- Technical: coding, conducting code reviews, and discussing architectural designs
- Operations: triaging issues, investigating timeouts, and ensuring the stability of the system
- Performance: improving latency of SQL queries and API endpoints
- Cost: optimizing usage of cloud and other service providers to keep expenditures under control
- Management: growing the team, delegating, ensuring important items are being delivered on time
- Integrations: building and designing integrations with external systems
Note: This is a hands-on position, and you will be required to spend around 50% of your time coding.
About You:- You bring 6+ years of relevant software engineering experience, with at least 1 year dedicated to full-time engineering team management.
- You have a proven track record in managing complex, cross-functional projects across multiple teams.
- You're skilled at hiring talented engineers at various levels and building high-performing teams.
- You can make strategic trade-offs to deliver high-quality code in a fast-paced, scaling environment.
- Your expertise includes strong development and system design skills, with experience in Python, React, and AWS as a plus.
- You're adept at optimizing APIs and SQL queries for performance.
- You're familiar with monitoring tools such as DataDog, Sentry, or similar services.
- You hold a bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field.
- Very competitive salary (based on experience level)
- Significant equity options package.
- Work with an ambitious, smart, global, and fun team to transform a $1T global industry.
- 20 days of PTO a year.
- Global team offsites.
- Kalepa covers luxmed private health insurance for individuals and families.
- Healthy living/gym stipend. Mobile phone bill stipend.
- Continuing education credits.
- Global team off-sites (2021 - Playa del Carmen, 2022 - Rome, 2023 - Buenos Aires, 2024 - Lisbon)
