Director of Engineering – Core Product

Kalepa

. Kalepa is looking for an exceptional Director of Engineering to lead and grow Kalepa’s Core Product team.

Posted 4/21/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $215,000 - $295,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsEC2

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Kalepa is looking for an exceptional Director of Engineering to lead and grow Kalepa’s Core Product team.
You will be responsible for defining the architectural roadmap, setting strategy, driving engineering operational excellence, and cultivating a high-performance, results-driven culture that consistently delivers exceptional value to Kalepa’s clients.
As part of the Core Product team, you will establish the frameworks, engineering standards, and cross-functional cadences to power Kalepa’s cutting-edge platform which augments human underwriters and orchestrates AI underwriters to deliver rapid and profitable growth to the world’s largest insurers.

Requirements

What you’ll need

You have 10+ years of relevant software engineering experience with at least 3 years of full-time engineering people management experience, ideally including experience managing managers and scaling organizations.
You are known for rethinking the way that engineering is done and feel right at home managing both human and AI agents, while ensuring quality and reliability.
You have a proven track record of driving complex, large-scale engineering initiatives and aligning technical strategy with broader company objectives.
You are an excellent recruiter of top-tier engineering talent and somebody who exceptional software engineers want to work with.
You have the ability to make the tradeoffs required to ship high-quality code while working within the constraints of a fast-growing company.
You drive operational excellence by championing metrics-driven decision-making and implementing robust engineering practices.
You thrive on experimentation: you're comfortable testing ideas, measuring results, and iterating quickly on problems no one has solved before.
You have deep architectural expertise and a strong foundation in system design, distributed systems, and scalable infrastructure.
You have experience overseeing and scaling platforms utilizing serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and modern cloud environments.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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, and others
Work with an ambitious, smart, global, and fun team to transform a $7T 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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringpeople managementarchitectural expertisesystem designdistributed systemsscalable infrastructureserverless technologiesasynchronous workflowscloud environmentsmetrics-driven decision-making

Soft Skills

leadershiprecruitmentoperational excellenceexperimentationproblem-solvingcommunicationstrategic alignmentresults-driven culturecollaborationadaptability