Tech Lead Manager (Europe)

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 (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).

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.

What You’ll Get:

• 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.