Technical Lead Manager, Kalepa

Core User Experience

$140-185k

Salary in USD and may vary in further locations. + Equity Options

React

Postgres

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Europe, UK

More information about location

AI-driven commercial insurance provider

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AI-driven commercial insurance provider

21-100 employees

FintechB2BArtificial IntelligenceInsurance

Be an early applicant

$140-185k

Salary in USD and may vary in further locations. + Equity Options

React

Postgres

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Europe, UK

More information about location

21-100 employees

FintechB2BArtificial IntelligenceInsurance

Company mission

To help commercial and specialty insurers bind with confidence.

Job

Company

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
You have experience in a modern FE framework, preferably React
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 full-stack 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 Core UX team, you will focus on refining existing product functionality to deliver an exceptional user experience
Your work will center on ensuring consistency across the product, maintaining a cohesive look and feel, and implementing performance improvements that directly impact end users
You’ll be paying close attention to the layout, interactions, responsiveness, and visual polish, that collectively give the product a premium, well-crafted feel
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys iterative improvement, cares deeply about quality, and wants to shape the everyday experience of our users
Note: 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

Glassdoor (4.9)

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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