Director of Engineering - Core Product (USA)

USAFull-time$230k2026-10-06 → 2026-11-09

Core

Lead and grow the Core Product team to define architectural roadmap, set strategy, and drive engineering operational excellence for a platform augmenting human underwriters with AI.

Role type

Director of Engineering (Strategy & Leadership)

Builds

Kalepa's cutting-edge platform for insurance underwriting

Domain

Insurance / AI / Full-stack Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Full-stack engineering, people management (managing managers), system design, distributed systems, scalable infrastructure, serverless technologies, asynchronous workflows, cloud environments, architectural expertise, operational excellence, experimentation

Preferred skills

Recruiting top-tier talent, tradeoff analysis for fast-growing companies

Technologies

Lambda, EC2

Responsibilities

Define architectural roadmap, set engineering strategy, drive operational excellence, cultivate high-performance culture, establish engineering frameworks and standards, align technical strategy with business objectives

Seniority

Director, hands-on leadership

About Kalepa

Series A50 Employees

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