Senior Software Engineer (React)

About Kota

Kota is the world's first fully integrated benefits platform for companies and their employees, where insurance and retirement providers are powered and billed in one place. We do this by building the infrastructure on the Internet for insurance providers to get online and enhance their distribution opportunities for a new era of workers—those with increased financial literacy, expecting consumer-first user experiences and a global outlook.

Our mission & journey

Our mission is to make insurance and benefits more accessible and delightful to this generation of employees. Kota was started in 2022 and has raised €7.6m from Europe’s top technology investors, including EQT Ventures, Northzone, Frontline and angels, including Job Van Der Voort of Remote.com, Romain Huet, formerly of Stripe, now Open AI, David Clarke formerly of Workday. The companies our investors have previously backed or built include the likes of Spotify, Airbnb, Klarna, Truelayer, Snapchat, Workday, Personio, Workvivo, Pointy, Workable, Wayflyer and more.

We work remotely and our team is spread from Ireland 🇮🇪, United Kingdom 🇬🇧, Portugal 🇵🇹, Italy 🇮🇹, Spain 🇪🇸, Romania🇷🇴, and all the way to India 🇮🇳.

Role Overview

We’re looking for a Senior Engineer to join the team behind Kota Embed, our developer products that powers embeddable UI components and unique way of embedding benefits into existing platforms like payroll and HRIS.

You’ll work with React, Remix.js, and other modern frameworks to build pixel-perfect, responsive, and scalable UIs. This role is ideal for someone who loves sweating the details, crafting great developer and user experiences, and writing clean, modern frontend code without slowing down the team and most importantly, shipping fast⚡️.

Why Join Us?

• Impact from Day One - We’re a small, focused team where your work ships fast and matters. You’ll own meaningful parts of the product and help shape our developer platform.
• Modern Stack - We work with Remix.js, React, .NET 8, PostgreSQL, and modern infra. No legacy baggage, no unnecessary complexity.
• Craft-Driven Culture - We care about clean design, quality, speed of execution and thoughtful user experiences. You’ll work alongside some of the best engineers and designers who sweat the details.
• Autonomy & Trust – We hire senior people and give them the space to do their best work. No micromanagement, just shared goals and mutual respect.
• Global Reach – Our platform is used by companies around the world to offer benefits to their employees. What you build will have real impact.

What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain modern business logic, UIs, developer products at Kota
• Work closely with product, design, and engineering teams to ship high-quality features quickly and reliably
• Contribute to frontend architecture decisions to ensure scalability, performance, and long-term maintainability
• Create reusable components and design patterns that accelerate development across products.
• Focus on both developer and customer experience and building embeddable components that feel native, load fast, and are easy to integrate
• Contribute to code reviews and technical planning, helping us maintain high standards while keeping things fast and practical
• Own your code in production. Debug issues, handle incidents, and continuously improve reliability and performance

What We’re Looking For

• 6+ years of experience building modern web applications with React and component-driven frameworks like Remix.js, React Router, Next.js or similar
• Familiarity with Vercel and AWS, or a willingness to get hands-on with deployment and DevOps when needed
• A strong eye for design, UX, and responsive UI. You care about the details and enjoy getting things to feel “just right”
• Experience working in small, fast-moving teams, ideally in a startup or product-focused environment
• Comfortable leading technical decisions and collaborating across teams
• Owns their code — from writing it to debugging it in production
• Pragmatic about code quality and speed — you know when to be scrappy and when to invest in polish
• Comfortable with ambiguity — we’re growing fast, learning as we go, and figuring things out along the way
• Bonus: Experience working in startups (browny points for FinTech), building design systems, or developer tools.

Our Hiring Process

We like to keep things simple and respectful of your time — here’s what you can expect:

Intro Chat (30 mins): A casual conversation with one of our founders to learn more about you, your experience, and what you’re looking for. We’ll also tell you more about Kota and the role.

Technical Interview (60–90 mins)

A collaborative coding challenge and a discussion about your technical expertise. You’ll work through a real-world problem with some of our engineers, focusing on how you think, approach problem-solving, and write clean, maintainable code. We’ll also dive into technical topics relevant to the role, ensuring a good fit for both sides.

Final Chat (30–45 mins)

A conversation with our founders, focused on getting to know you as a person. How you think, what drives you, and whether we’re aligned in values and ways of working. It’s as much about culture fit as it is about mutual excitement.

That’s it. No take-home assignments. No endless rounds. Just a chance for both of us to get to know each other and see if it’s a good fit.

What We Offer

We take wellness seriously and believe in giving our team what we build, including a genuinely competitive salary and stock options, while having a direct impact in a category pioneering start-up

🏥 Health

We offer comprehensive health cover regardless of where you call home - via Kota

🏡 Work from home budget

We’ll cover a work computer and a stipend for you to get set up to work from home so you can do your best work, comfortably

📆 Holidays

We offer 25 days of paid holidays that you must take each year - plus we take public holidays off

📈 Pension

We offer you a personal pension and we’ll add matched contributions to yours - via Kota

💼 Office / co-working space

Work from our office space in Dublin or get set up with a co-working space wherever you’re working from

⌚ Flexible working hours

We’re a remote-first team and have some fixed hours for team alignment but outside of that feel free to work on your own schedule

_We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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