Kalepa

Director of Engineering - Core Product (New York)

New York, NY · Director · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$240k-$295kDetected 92 days ago

Distributed SystemsFull-Stack DevelopmentAgentic AIA/B TestingProduct StrategyLeadershipCommunicationUnderwriting

About the role

For people who want to work on AI that matters, in a sector where correctness, trust, and real-world impact count, Kalepa is just getting started.
Kalepa is backed by leading investors such as IA Ventures and Inspired Capital, and our team brings experience from Facebook, Palantir, Google, Amazon, McKinsey, Mastercard, and Uber.

Deliver Customer Impact
We're building something exceptional, and that requires exceptional people and ideas. We have a high bar but we reward excellence with rapid growth. If you're the best at what you do, you'll thrive here.
to build the AI operating system for decision-making across insurance.
Kalepa is looking for an exceptional Director of Engineering to lead and grow Kalepa's Core Product team.
We are looking for a deeply technical leader with extensive experience in full-stack engineering who is excited to partner closely with the executive team and cross-functional leaders to shape the future of Kalepa's product.
You will be responsible for defining the architectural roadmap, setting strategy, driving engineering operational excellence, and cultivating a high-performance, results-driven culture that consistently delivers exceptional value to Kalepa's clients.
As part of the Core Product team, you will establish the frameworks, engineering standards, and cross-functional cadences to power Kalepa's cutting-edge platform which augments human underwriters and orchestrates AI underwriters to deliver rapid and profitable growth to the world's largest insurers.
You drive operational excellence by championing metrics-driven decision-making and implementing robust engineering practices.
You have deep architectural expertise and a strong foundation in system design, distributed systems, and scalable infrastructure.

You have experience overseeing and scaling platforms utilizing serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and modern cloud environments.

You have 10+ years of relevant software engineering experience with at least 3 years of full-time engineering people management experience, ideally including experience managing managers and scaling organizations.
You are known for rethinking the way that engineering is done and feel right at home managing both human and AI agents, while ensuring quality and reliability.
You have a proven track record of driving complex, large-scale engineering initiatives and aligning technical strategy with broader company objectives.
You are an excellent recruiter of top-tier engineering talent and somebody who exceptional software engineers want to work with.
You have the ability to make the tradeoffs required to ship high-quality code while working within the constraints of a fast-growing company.

software that can read, reason, decide, and act inside real workflows and operate over long-time horizons.
Kalepa begins by augmenting professionals with the tools to succeed at their jobs.
That earns us the right to learn from real decisions, capture decision traces, and automate what can be automated successfully over time.
Our products are already in production with leading insurers, driving measurable outcomes and expanding across functions.

The salary range listed is an estimate and will vary based on a variety of factors.

20 days of PTO a year
Healthy living/gym stipend.
Mobile phone bill stipend.
Continuing education credits.
100% covered medical, 100% covered vision and dental for individuals and families, and others

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.
We're obsessed with customer impact. Every feature, every line of code, every decision is measured against one question: does this help insurers make better decisions? If it doesn't drive speed, accuracy, or profitability for our customers, we don't build it.
Global team offsites (2021

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