Director of Engineering - Core Product (USA)

Kalepa
New York
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 215,000 - 295,000 annuallyFunction: Executive & General ManagementExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Recruiting","Communication","Problem-solving","Mentoring"]

Lead Kalepa’s Core Product engineering team as a deeply technical Director of Engineering, shaping architectural roadmap and strategy, driving operational excellence, and delivering high-impact AI-powered underwriting platforms for the world’s largest insurers. Partner with executives and cross-functional leaders to scale engineering, manage managers, and ensure quality, reliability, and fast growth.

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Kalepa
4 months ago

Director of Engineering - Core Product (USA)

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Job Summary

Lead Kalepa’s Core Product engineering team as a deeply technical Director of Engineering, shaping architectural roadmap and strategy, driving operational excellence, and delivering high-impact AI-powered underwriting platforms for the world’s largest insurers. Partner with executives and cross-functional leaders to scale engineering, manage managers, and ensure quality, reliability, and fast growth.
Location: New York
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Executive & General Management
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define the architectural roadmap and set engineering strategy for Kalepa’s Core Product.
  • •Drive engineering operational excellence and metrics-driven decision-making across the team.
  • •Lead and grow the Core Product team, including scaling managers and recruiting top engineers.
  • •Bridge product vision and technical execution to deliver business impact and long-term growth.
  • •Establish frameworks, standards, and cadences to power the platform with modern cloud/serverless infrastructure.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 215,000 - 295,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:MedicalVisionDental401kEquityGym MembershipLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years software engineering with at least 3 years of full-time engineering people management, including experience managing managers and scaling organizations.
  • •Experience managing both human and AI agents, ensuring quality and reliability.
  • •Proven track record driving complex, large-scale engineering initiatives and aligning technical strategy with company objectives.
  • •Excellent recruiter of top-tier engineering talent and someone exceptional software engineers want to work with.
  • •Ability to make tradeoffs to ship high-quality code within a fast-growing company.
Experience:10+ yearsInsuranceAIInsurtech
Skills:LeadershipRecruitingCommunicationProblem-solvingMentoring
Languages:English
Tech Stack:LambdaEC2ServerlessAWSDistributed systemsCloud

Company Brief

Kalepa
Provides a lending decisioning and credit automation platform that helps banks and lenders automate SME loan origination, underwriting, and risk decisioning using data aggregation and analytics.
Industry: Lending
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