Tech Lead Manager

Summary

Join Kalepa, a company revolutionizing the commercial insurance industry with its AI-powered platform, as a Tech Lead/Manager. This role blends hands-on software engineering with team leadership, requiring you to manage a small team of experienced engineers. You will be responsible for technical aspects like coding and code reviews, operational tasks such as issue triaging, performance optimization of SQL queries and APIs, cost optimization, and team growth. The ideal candidate possesses 6+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 1 year of full-time team management, and a proven track record in managing complex projects. Kalepa offers a competitive salary, significant equity, and various benefits, including health insurance, paid time off, global team offsites, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• Have 6+ years of relevant software engineering experience
• Have at least 1 year dedicated to full-time engineering team management
• Have a proven track record in managing complex, cross-functional projects across multiple teams
• Be skilled at hiring talented engineers at various levels and building high-performing teams
• Be able to make strategic trade-offs to deliver high-quality code in a fast-paced, scaling environment
• Have strong development and system design skills
• Be adept at optimizing APIs and SQL queries for performance
• Be familiar with monitoring tools such as DataDog, Sentry, or similar services
• Hold a bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field

Responsibilities

• Conduct code reviews
• Discuss architectural designs
• Triage issues
• Investigate timeouts
• Ensure the stability of the system
• Improve latency of SQL queries and API endpoints
• Optimize usage of cloud and other service providers to keep expenditures under control
• Grow the team
• Delegate tasks
• Ensure important items are being delivered on time
• Build and design integrations with external systems
• Code (approximately 50% of your time)

Preferred Qualifications

Have experience in Python, React, and AWS

Benefits

• Very competitive salary (based on experience level)
• Significant equity options package
• Opportunity to work with an ambitious, smart, global, and fun team to transform a $1T global industry
• 20 days of PTO a year
• Global team offsites
• Luxmed private health insurance for individuals and families
• Healthy living/gym stipend
• Mobile phone bill stipend
• Continuing education credits