Frontend Engineer - Investments Team

Department: Product

Location: Remote

Employment Type: FullTime

About Kota

Kota is making insurance and retirement benefits as accessible as modern software. We do this across the Kota Platform, the world's first fully integrated benefits platform and Kota Embed, our embedded insurance and retirement product for platforms around the world.

Our mission is to make benefits more accessible and delightful to this generation of employees. We were started in 2022 and have raised over €20m from Europe's top technology investors, including Eurazeo, EQT Ventures, Northzone, and Frontline, with angels including Romain Huet (formerly Stripe, now OpenAI) and David Clarke (formerly Workday). The companies our investors have backed or built include Spotify, Airbnb, Klarna, Truelayer, Snapchat, Workday, Personio, Workvivo, Pointy, Workable, Wayflyer, and more.

The Role

We're hiring a Frontend Engineer to join the Investments team — the stream responsible for making workplace pensions and retirement savings feel as intuitive as the best consumer apps.

Your team owns everything employees and employers see when it comes to retirement: contribution dashboards, fund selection flows, pension provider integrations, and the data surfaces that help people actually understand and engage with their savings. It's genuinely complex, financially meaningful work — and most of it is crying out for great frontend thinking.

You'll work closely with our Product Lead and backend engineers to ship high-quality, performant UIs that make one of the most important financial decisions in people's lives feel simple.

What You'll Do

• Build and maintain employer and employee-facing UIs for pension and retirement products using React and modern frontend frameworks

• Translate complex financial data and workflows — contributions, fund performance, provider configurations — into clear, elegant interfaces

• Contribute to frontend architecture decisions to ensure scalability, performance, and long-term maintainability across the Investments stream

• Create reusable components and design patterns that can be shared across Kota's broader platform

• Collaborate with design, product, and backend engineers to ship features quickly and reliably

• Own your code in production — debug issues, respond to incidents, and continuously improve reliability and experience

• Participate in code reviews and technical planning, helping us maintain high standards without slowing things down

What We're Looking For

• 3–6 years of experience building production web applications with React, and familiarity with frameworks like Remix.js, Next.js, or React Router

• Strong instincts for UX and design — you care about how things feel, not just how they work

• Comfortable working with TypeScript and TailwindCSS

• Experience consuming REST APIs and working with structured financial or transactional data is a big plus

• You thrive in small, fast-moving teams where ownership is real and the feedback loop is short

• Comfortable with some ambiguity — we're growing fast and figuring things out as we go

Bonus: Experience in FinTech, pensions, or financial services; familiarity with Vercel; experience building design systems or accessibility-first UIs

Why Join Us?

• Meaningful work — pensions are one of the most under loved and underfunded parts of people's financial lives. What you build here genuinely matters.

• Modern stack — React, Remix.js, .NET 8, PostgreSQL, and clean infrastructure. No legacy baggage.

• Craft-driven culture — we care about clean design, quality, and thoughtful experiences. You'll work alongside engineers and designers who sweat the details.

• Autonomy and trust — we hire people and give them the space to do their best work. Shared goals, mutual respect, no micromanagement.

• Impact from day one — we're a small, focused team. What you ship matters immediately.

Our Values

• Care deeply — our products are our story; we look at the details and go the extra mile to delight customers

• Integrity — we care deeply about our why and it won't jeopardise our how

• Fearless — we exist because we decided to say no to the norm; now we do this every day

• Raise the Bar — we push past good enough — expect more, move faster, raise the standard

• Ownership — ask why, do the work, get the data, solve the problem, be an owner