US (Remote) Remote (Country) Employment $215K – $295K USD

Kalepa is hiring a Director of Engineering - Core Product (USA)

About the Role

This role is responsible for leading a team of engineers building and scaling the core product platform. The ideal candidate will combine strong technical leadership with experience in product-driven development and team management.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a team of software engineers working on core platform systems
  • Collaborate with product and design teams to define and deliver key features
  • Set technical direction for scalable, maintainable architecture
  • Drive engineering best practices including code quality, testing, and deployment reliability
  • Own delivery timelines and execution for core product initiatives
  • Work closely with cross-functional leaders to align on priorities and roadmaps
  • Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement
  • Recruit, onboard, and develop engineering talent
  • Evaluate and adopt new technologies that support product goals
  • Ensure systems meet performance, security, and compliance standards
  • Translate business objectives into technical strategy
  • Manage multiple concurrent engineering projects
  • Promote reusability and consistency across engineering teams
  • Champion observability and monitoring practices
  • Support incident response and system reliability
  • Participate in strategic planning at the executive level
  • Improve engineering processes to increase team velocity
  • Ensure alignment between engineering output and customer needs
  • Maintain documentation standards across systems
  • Balance technical debt with feature development
  • Drive adoption of secure coding practices
  • Lead post-mortems and improvement initiatives after major events
  • Represent engineering in cross-departmental discussions
  • Advocate for user-centric design in technical decisions
  • Ensure accessibility and internationalization are considered in development

Compensation

Competitive salary and equity package

Work Arrangement

Remote within the USA

Team

Part of the engineering leadership team focused on core product development

Why This Role Matters

The core product is central to the company's mission, and this leader will shape its evolution. You will directly influence how technology enables business outcomes and customer value.

What We Value

We prioritize clear communication, technical rigor, empathy in leadership, and a focus on long-term sustainability over short-term fixes.

Does not offer visa sponsorship for this position

About company
Kalepa
Insurance is a $7T global industry built on professional labor: underwriting, claims, pricing, operations, and distribution. Kalepa is building AI that can perform that work. We create professional-grade AI systems for insurers: software that can read, reason, decide, and act inside real workflows and operate over long-time horizons. Kalepa begins by augmenting professionals with the tools to succeed at their jobs. That earns us the right to learn from real decisions, capture decision traces, and automate what can be automated successfully over time. Our products are already in production with leading insurers, driving measurable outcomes and expanding across functions. The opportunity is far broader than any single workflow: to build the AI operating system for decision-making across insurance. For people who want to work on AI that matters, in a sector where correctness, trust, and real-world impact count, Kalepa is just getting started. Kalepa is backed by leading investors such as IA Ventures and Inspired Capital, and our team brings experience from Facebook, Palantir, Google, Amazon, McKinsey, Mastercard, and Uber.
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Job Details
Department Core Product
Category management
Posted 10 hours ago