Technical Lead Manager, Kalepa
Client Integrations
$140-185k
+ equity
AI-driven commercial insurance provider
Be an early applicant
AI-driven commercial insurance provider
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$140-185k
+ equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help commercial and specialty insurers bind with confidence.
Role
Who you are
- Have 8+ years of relevant software engineering experience with at least 2 years of full-time engineering people management experience
- Have experience managing complex projects that touch multiple teams and cross-functional partners
- Have past success hiring talented engineers at different levels
- Have the ability to make the tradeoffs required to ship high-quality code while working within the constraints of a fast-growing company
- Embody hustle and grit, you're excellent at your craft and relentless in pursuing it
- Communicate proactively, surfacing blockers, asking the right questions, keeping stakeholders in the loop
- Thrive on experimentation: you're comfortable testing ideas, measuring results, and iterating quickly on problems no one has solved before
- Have strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving
- Know Python (our main stack), though we're open to strong candidates from other OO backgrounds
- Have experience with serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments
- Are comfortable with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL
- Bonus: experience with LLMs/generative AI, distributed systems
What the job involves
- We are looking for an exceptional Tech Lead Manager to lead a team of world-class engineers building core Kalepa functionalities
- We are looking for a deeply technical leader with significant experience in backend engineering who is excited to be hands-on and a ‘player-coach’
- The candidate will be responsible for setting strategy, for leading the team to deliver results consistently, for growing and developing talented engineers, and for cultivating a results-driven high-performance culture
- As part of the Client Integrations team, you will work on the external-facing APIs that power our customers’ core workflows
- Your day-to-day will involve designing and building API endpoints, improving database and query performance, and integrating with a wide range of third-party services
- You’ll translate product requirements into reliable business logic, help diagnose and resolve customer issues, and contribute to making our platform faster, more stable, and easier to use
- You will spend a lot of the time on the engineering work as this is a hands-on position (around 50% - coding)
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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