Tech Lead Manager (Front-End)

Who are we?

Kalepa is a fully remote startup dedicated to enhancing underwriting performance and driving profitable premium growth for the commercial insurance industry. Kalepa's AI-powered Copilot software enables underwriters to focus on the highest ROI opportunities and quickly evaluate and optimally select risk. Kalepa is backed by IA Ventures, Inspired Capital, and leaders in technology and financial services. Our HQ is located in New York.

Kalepa is looking for a Tech Lead Manager for Full-Stack Team with 7+ years of experience to lead our world-class software development for commercial insurers. 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’.

Team members are given full ownership over their projects and are expected to drive the project’s direction and maintain focus. The team works in a two-week sprint and collaborates with a small team of full-stack, data, ML, and DevOps engineers.

🛠 Tech Stack:

🎯Back End: Python, Connexion

🎯Front End: React + Query + Typescript

🎯Development process: Docker

What you will be responsible for:

🕹 Will be responsible for setting strategy

🕹 Leading the team to deliver results consistently

🕹 Growing and developing talented engineers

🕹 Cultivating a results-driven high-performance culture

Note: You will spend a lot of time on the engineering work as this is a hands-on position (around 50% - coding).

✅Apply ✅to us if you have:

⭐ Minimum of 7 years of experience with at least 2 years of a full-time engineering people management experience

⭐ Have experience managing complex projects that touch multiple teams and cross-functional partners.

⭐ You possess a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field

⭐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.

⭐ We primarily use Python3 however are open to seeing your code in other OO languages (Java, C++, C#, etc.)

⭐ Experience with AWS as we work with serverless technologies and asynchronous workflow. (EC2, Lambda, etc.)

⭐ Have worked with relational databases with a preference for PostgreSQL

⭐ Excitement about using a comprehensive set of technologies, ultimately focused on finding the right tool for the job

⭐ Preference for an open, frank, and respectful communication style

A concrete mindset 🧘 is crucial to us, so ⛔DON’T ⛔apply if:

💔 You’re not a true hustler. Who’s a hustler? Good question! Somebody that never takes no for an answer. The words “it can’t be done” don’t exist in their vocabulary

💔You’re looking for an 8-16 job

💔You don’t like to take ownership

💔You’re afraid of constructive feedback

💔You’re not comfortable with independent work

What you’ll get: 

🔥 A personalized and clear career development plan, including employee reviews every six months. We invest time in developing and supporting our employees, giving them opportunities to grow. 

🔥 Transparent and fair compensation and promotion discussions solely based on performance. One of our top performers was even promoted after only 3 months.

🔥 The possibility of working with an ambitious, smart, global, and fun team that is transforming a trillion-dollar industry 

🔥 A ground-floor opportunity to build the foundations for the product, team, and culture

🔥 Exposure to wide-ranging intellectual challenges spanning full-stack software development, AI / ML, and design

🔥 Possibility to work with Kalepa's team members who bring experience from top technology, insurance, and intelligence institutions, including Facebook, Google, Amazon, ClassPass, Atlassian, Mastercard, MIT, Berkeley, UPenn, the University of Warsaw, and the Israel Defense Forces

🔥 Fully remote work environment. Flexible start and finish times

Benefits:

💵 Very competitive base salary 

📈 Significant equity options package (learn more https://carta.com/blog/equity-101-stock-option-basics/)

🏝 20 paid vacation days a year

🌆 Paid Bank Holidays

💆‍♀️ Unlimited Sick Leave (+👪parental leave)

🏋 Multisport Plus Card, 🏥LuxMed comprehensive package

📞 Mobile phone bill reimbursement

🎒 Continued learning & 🏠Home office credit stipend

🌍 Quarterly teams offsites in global locations

🧲 Assistance with getting a 5% tax rate (IP BOX)

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Recruitment process in 10 quick steps 😳complete within 1-2 weeks(yes, not the shortest, but if you love challenges, you’re in the right place. To reward that, you will always get clear & honest feedback within 24h top ⏰)

1️⃣APPLICATION

Apply via link and 📩 send us your CV (in English) us

2️⃣VERIFICATION

Within 24h, our recruiter will verify your CV 📄 and reach out to you

3️⃣PRELIMINARY CALL

~30 min conversation with a recruiter - you will learn more about the company and our culture & we will learn more about you

4️⃣TASK

Based on your preference, we will send a task on the HackerRank platform - 3 tasks, 75 min to complete + you can choose a programming language

5️⃣TECHNICAL PHONE INTERVIEW

1h hands-on coding task with one of our Engineers

6️⃣CULTURE FIT INTERVIEW

30 min meeting to measure if you are a good match for our organization

7️⃣FACE-TO-FACE STAGE

2h back and forth interview session. It contains 1h meeting about System Design & Architecture + two 30 min meetings during which you will get a chance to meet both of our VP of Growth/Chief of Staff & CEO!

8️⃣REFERENCES

Uff, you are almost there... As part of our process, we hold 2-3 reference calls with individuals who have worked with you in the past

9️⃣OFFER

We will send you a proposition of the offer and will wait for your decision

🔟WELCOME

You will write code from day one 

🙋🏻‍♀️Gosia will take care of your recruitment process!

If your expectations identify with ours and you want to join our team - apply today ​​👇