Kalepa
Tech Lead Manager - Core UX (Europe)
Kalepa
$140k - $185k
Europe (Remote)
React
Lambda
EC2

Tech Lead Manager - Core UX (Europe)

Overview

Kalepa is an AI Underwriting Platform built to deliver Professional-Grade AI in production, helping insurers centralize and prioritize submission data, surface critical risk insights, and make faster, more confident decisions.

Job Description

Kalepa is changing the commercial insurance industry with its AI Underwriting Platform. The company is backed by leading VCs and has a team with experience from top technology companies.

Responsibilities

  • - Lead a team of world-class engineers building core Kalepa functionalities
  • - Set strategy and lead the team to deliver results consistently
  • - Grow and develop talented engineers
  • - Cultivate a results-driven high-performance culture
  • - Focus on refining existing product functionality to deliver an exceptional user experience
  • - Ensure consistency across the product, maintaining a cohesive look and feel
  • - Implement performance improvements that directly impact end users

Required Skills

  • - 8+ years of relevant software engineering experience with at least 2 years of full-time engineering people management experience
  • - Experience managing complex projects that touch multiple teams and cross-functional partners
  • - Past success hiring talented engineers at different levels
  • - Ability to make tradeoffs required to ship high-quality code
  • - Embody hustle and grit, 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: comfortable testing ideas, measuring results, and iterating quickly
  • - Strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving
  • - Experience in a modern FE framework, preferably React
  • - Experience with serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments
  • - Comfortable with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL
  • - Bonus: experience with LLMs/generative AI, distributed systems

Benefits

  • - Competitive salary (based on experience level)
  • - Significant equity options package
  • - 401(k) plan with employer match (regardless of employee contribution)
  • - Excellent benefits: 100% covered medical, 100% covered vision and dental for individuals and families
  • - Work with an ambitious, smart, global, and fun team to transform a $1T global industry
  • - 20 days of PTO a year
  • - Global team offsites (2021 - Playa del Carmen, 2022 - Rome, 2023 - Buenos Aires, 2024 - Lisbon, 2025 - Cartagena)
  • - Healthy living/gym stipend
  • - Mobile phone bill stipend
  • - Continuing education credits

About the company

Copilot - our AI-powered underwriting software - helps commercial and specialty insurers better serve businesses with more accurate pricing and relevant coverage. It’s a win-win for insurers and businesses alike.


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