USD per year
Head of Engineering
$220K - $280K 30% - 1.50% 30% New York, NY, US Job type Full-time Role Engineering, Full stack Experience 6+ years Visa US citizen/visa only Skills Express, JavaScript, Node.js, React, Redis, TypeScript, PostgreSQL
About the role
At Kyber, we're building the next-generation document platform for enterprises. Today, our AI-native solution transforms regulatory document workflows, enabling insurance claims organizations to consolidate 80% of their templates, spend 65% less time drafting, and compress overall communication cycle times by 5x. Our vision is for every enterprise to seamlessly leverage AI templates to generate every document. Over the past 18 months, we’ve:
- >40x’d revenue and are profitable.
- Landed multiple six and seven figure, multi-year contracts with leading insurance enterprises.
- Launched strategic partnerships with industry leading software partners like Guidewire, Majesco, and Twilio Sendgrid.
Kyber is backed by top Silicon Valley VCs, including Y Combinator and Fellows Fund. We're seeking a hands-on Head of Engineering with a clear line of sight to CTO. This role is ideal for someone who is already operating as a 10x engineer, thrives in early stage environments, and is excited to design and scale mission-critical AI systems from first principles.
Responsibilities:
- Be the Technical Owner of the Product
- Own end-to-end technical decisions across backend, frontend, data, infra.
- Ship features personally while keeping the team unblocked.
- Prioritize an Aggressive Product Roadmap
- Lead sprint/weekly planning and keep priorities tight
- Protect focus: decisively manage tradeoffs, push back when needed
- Unlock Leverage to Boost Engineering Capacity
- Scale adoption of Agentic AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Greptile) into large scale engineering and product workflows to accelerate time to market.
- Establish reusable patterns and interfaces so engineers and agents aren’t reinventing everything.
- Champion Reliability, Security, and Customer Trust
- Own uptime, performance, and incident response.
- Implement monitoring/alerts + fast debugging workflows.
- Mentor & Raise the Engineering Bar
- Set expectations for quality and ownership.
- Help recruit and evaluate future hires.
What We’re Looking For in You:
- 10x Engineer with a love of building
- Your raw coding ability should be unmatched and only deeply amplified by AI.
- You love to build and relish seeing customers delighted by your work.
- Ship first, optimize and harden later
- You get something out as quickly as possible,...
Kyber is an AI-based platform that automates the drafting, reviewing, and sending of claims forms and correspondence for P&C insurance claims. It ensures compliance, consistency, and personalization in communications, helping claims teams reduce manual work, improve efficiency, and scale operations without adding headcount. Kyber supports audit-ready documents, reduces drafting time by 65%, unifies templates dynamically, and integrates seamlessly into existing workflows.
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