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)

 

Salary and compensation

No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Education, Cloud, API and Mobile jobs that are similar:

$35,000 — $70,000/year

Benefits

💰 401(k)

🌎 Distributed team

⏰ Async

🤓 Vision insurance

🦷 Dental insurance

🚑 Medical insurance

🏖 Unlimited vacation

🏖 Paid time off

📆 4 day workweek

💰 401k matching

🏔 Company retreats

🏬 Coworking budget

📚 Learning budget

💪 Free gym membership

🧘 Mental wellness budget

🖥 Home office budget

🥧 Pay in crypto

🥸 Pseudonymous

💰 Profit sharing

💰 Equity compensation

⬜️ No whiteboard interview

👀 No monitoring system

🚫 No politics at work

🎅 We hire old (and young)

Location

Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland