Tech Lead Manager

Base Salary: $156K - $204K

Equity: 0.05% to 0.2%

About the Role:

We are looking for a Tech Lead/Manager to lead a small team (4 to 5 people) of experienced engineers. TLM at Kalepa is a blend of hands-on software engineering and leadership. The candidate needs to be able to dive deep into problems effectively delegate responsibilities grow and develop talented engineers and cultivate a results-driven high-performance culture.

Areas of responsibility:

• Technical: coding conducting code reviews and discussing architectural designs

• Operations: triaging issues investigating timeouts and ensuring the stability of the system

• Performance: improving latency of SQL queries and API endpoints

• Cost: optimizing usage of cloud and other service providers to keep expenditures under control

• Management: growing the team delegating ensuring important items are being delivered on time

• Integrations: building and designing integrations with external systems

Note : This is a hands-on position and you will be required to spend around 50% of your time coding.

About You:

• You bring 6+ years of relevant software engineering experience with at least 1 year dedicated to full-time engineering team management.

• You have a proven track record in managing complex cross-functional projects across multiple teams.

• You're skilled at hiring talented engineers at various levels and building high-performing teams.

• You can make strategic trade-offs to deliver high-quality code in a fast-paced scaling environment.

• Your expertise includes strong development and system design skills with experience in Python React and AWS as a plus.

• You're adept at optimizing APIs and SQL queries for performance.

• You're familiar with monitoring tools such as DataDog Sentry or similar services.

• You hold a bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field.

What You’ll Get:

• Very competitive salary (based on experience level)

• Significant equity options package.

• Work with an ambitious smart global and fun team to transform a $1T global industry.

• 20 days of PTO a year.

• Global team offsites.

• Kalepa covers luxmed private health insurance for individuals and families.

• Healthy living/gym stipend. Mobile phone bill stipend.

• Continuing education credits.

• Global team off-sites (2021 - Playa del Carmen 2022 - Rome 2023 - Buenos Aires 2024 - Lisbon)