Director of Engineering, Kalepa
Core Product
$240-295k
+ Equity
AI-driven commercial insurance provider
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AI-driven commercial insurance provider
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$240-295k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help commercial and specialty insurers bind with confidence.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- You drive operational excellence by championing metrics-driven decision-making and implementing robust engineering practices
- You thrive on experimentation: you're comfortable testing ideas, measuring results, and iterating quickly on problems no one has solved before
- 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
What the job involves
- 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 will bridge the gap between product vision and technical execution, ensuring our technology investments directly drive business impact and long-term business growth
- This role is ideal for someone who cares deeply about quality, is actively rethinking the way that software is built and shipped, and wants to shape the way Kalepa impacts the most critical decisions made at the largest insurance companies
Our take
Insurance products that are underwritten at the Efficient Frontier are essential for businesses to mitigate financial risk, but one-size-fits-all approaches to insurance results in many coverage plans being unfairly priced. The reason for this is that whilst businesses each present their own unique set of hazards, identifying them for each company is an incredibly lengthy process for human underwriters.
Kalepa leverages human-interrupted artificial intelligence to identify the true hazards of a business through a data-driven approach and provide insurance that is priced accordingly. The company claims that it reduces the time that insurance providers take to provide quotes by over 40% and helps businesses save over $15M in losses, whilst also improving coverage uptake for insurance providers.
Whilst the commercial insurance sector is certainly oversaturated, Kalepa stands out by providing its AI-driven underwriting platform to insurance providers, helping them compete through faster quotes and lower prices. In addition to its underwriting platform, the company also provides its solutions in the form of embeddable APIs, and recently formed a new MGA that will underwrite excess casualty risks using Everspan paper.
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Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Paul Monasterio
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Kalepa in 2018, Paul worked in Strategy and Measurement at Facebook and served as the VP at Applied Predictive Technologies.
Daniel Hillman
(Co-Founder & COO)Previously a VP of Sales at Mastercard and Applied PRedictive Technologies.
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