--- title: 'Forward Deployed Engineer at Kota' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/forward-deployed-engineer-kota-dublin-vrptgm0cgdj2' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-11' --- # Forward Deployed Engineer at Kota - **Company:** Kota - **Location:** Dublin, Ireland - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-07-27 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-11 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Kota/cf1dc9c1-dcfb-48ff-aade-8b11c5180216 ## Job description We're proud to be ranked as the 12th fastest growing startup on the Sifted 250 list! 🚀 👉[Read about it here](https://www.kota.io/blog/sifted-250-2026) ## About Kota Kota is the only broker that runs employee benefits for you. Combining health cover, pensions, protection, spend cards, and flexible perks with HRIS integrations, Kota replaces spreadsheets, manual admin, and once-a-year broker calls with one connected system - backed by a team of benefits experts behind every recommendation. Kota powers benefits for more than 100,000 employees, across companies from fast-growing scale-ups to global HR and payroll platforms. Investors include Eurazeo, EQT Ventures, Northzone, Frontline Ventures, 9Yards, and Plug and Play Ventures. The Kota team includes experts who previously led at global financial services firms and fintechs such as Airwallex, Stripe, Bolt, Revolut - as well as insurance and benefits providers such as Aviva, Allianz, AXA, and Smart Pension. ## About the team As part of Kota’s Forward Deployed Engineering team you’ll work directly with our customers (global payroll providers, HR platforms) by helping them adopt our APIs and SDKs through hands-on support, integrations, and early insights. Our goal is to remove complexity so platforms spend less time wrestling with legacy systems and more time delivering benefits people love. ## The role As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Kota, you’ll sit at the intersection of engineering, product, and customer success. You’ll partner directly with our customers to design and deploy solutions that unlock the full value of Kota’s developer products. Unlike traditional software engineering roles, this position is highly customer-facing and hands-on. You’ll write production-quality code, advise partners on best practices, and influence our product roadmap based on real-world integrations. This role is perfect if you want to apply your technical skills in high-impact, customer-facing environments while shaping how benefits are delivered globally. ## What you’ll do - Partner with our customers’ engineering teams to integrate Kota’s SDKs and APIs into their platforms. - Translate customer needs into scalable, production-ready solutions. - Contribute to Kota’s product by building internal tools, writing reusable code, and identifying opportunities to improve APIs and SDKs. - Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success teams to ensure successful deployments. - Act as the technical voice of the customer - shaping features and roadmap decisions. - Debug complex issues across multiple systems, APIs, and data flows. ## About you - 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or similar engineering or technical role that includes customer-facing work. - You can write and review production code in TypeScript, Python, or C# (experience with multiple languages is a plus). - Comfortable working across APIs, SDKs, and data integrations. - Have successfully scoped and shipped complex systems in fast-moving environments. - Excellent communication skills; you can explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders. - Spot risks early and adjust without slowing down. - You have a bias for action - you thrive in ambiguity and can move quickly while maintaining high-quality standards. ## Nice to Have - Experience in fintech, insurtech, or HR tech. - Familiarity with global payroll, benefits, or insurance systems. - Prior experience in a forward deployed, solutions, or professional services engineering role. - Prior startup or solo-founder experience. - Familiarity with developer experience tooling or internal enablement work. ## Our Values - Have Integrity. We care deeply about our why and it won’t jeopardise our how. - Care Deeply. Our products are our story, we look at the details, go the extra mile to delight customers. - Own Your Ship. Ask why, do the work, get the data, solve the problem, be an owner. - Raise the Bar. We continuously look to push past good enough. Expect more, move faster, and never stop raising your and the team’s standards. - Play to Win. We exist because we decided to say no to the norm – now we do this everyday. Kota Benefits - Attractive stock options to share in the success of Kota - Health Insurance - Life assurance (country dependent) - Up to 5% matched contribution to a Workplace Pension (country dependent) - WFH stipend to support your home office needs 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. ## About Kota ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Kota builds the internet’s infrastructure for employee benefits, offering a single platform that connects companies to health, life, and retirement providers across every market. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: Dublin, Ireland - **Founded**: 2022 - **Founders**: Luke Mackey (CEO & Co-Founder) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Financial Services / Employee Benefits (InsurTech / HR Tech) - **Target customers**: B2B; core fit for growing UK and Ireland companies, particularly SME and mid-market teams; enterprise functionality available for larger organizations. - **Mission or purpose**: To build the internet infrastructure for financial benefits — powering health insurance, pension, and life insurance for a new generation of employees. ## Products & Services - **Kota Platform**: An all-in-one employee benefits platform that replaces both traditional brokers and legacy benefits software. It lets HR teams set up, manage, and track pension, health insurance, life assurance, income protection, and critical illness cover in one place. - **Kota Embed (API)**: An API that allows partners (e.g., HRIS platforms like Remote and Helios) to embed benefits directly into their own products. - **Spend Cards**: Issue and manage cards for employee allowances with automated controls, reporting, and payroll reconciliation. - **Flexible Benefits**: Employees can choose benefits that matter to them (e.g., gym, wellness, travel) — all managed in the Kota app. - **Built-in Brokerage**: Kota is a regulated insurance intermediary (licensed by the Central Bank of Ireland and an appointed representative of the FCA in the UK), so procurement and management happen in one system. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$22.4M** (€20m+), with a $14.5M Series A announced in May 2025. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Eurazeo (lead Series A), EQT Ventures, Northzone, Frontline Ventures, 9Yards, Plug and Play Ventures. - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount grew **76.4% YoY** to 61 employees. - Powering benefits for **65,000+ employees** (as of mid-2025, growing to 100,000+ by 2026). - **13 active job postings** as of mid-2025. - Licensed by the Central Bank of Ireland as an insurance intermediary — the only insurance benefits platform with regulatory approval across the EEA and the UK. - Powers benefits for platforms like Remote and Helios. ## Competitive Advantages - **Regulatory moat**: Kota is a regulated broker and platform in one — a combination that is rare and difficult to replicate. Licensed by the Central Bank of Ireland and FCA in the UK, it can procure and manage insurance directly. - **Deep carrier integrations**: Direct integrations with insurance carriers across dozens of countries, removing costly intermediation and enabling real-time, end-to-end automation. - **API-first infrastructure**: Unlike legacy benefits software, Kota offers an API that lets partners embed benefits natively, creating a platform ecosystem. - **All-in-one approach**: Replaces brokers, portals, spreadsheets, and admin — HRIS sync, payroll reconciliation, employee app, and brokerage all in one system. ## Strategic Focus - **Expand carrier reach**: Deepening integrations with insurance carriers in more markets (UK, Ireland, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Brazil, and beyond). - **Deepen core product experience**: Building the best possible experience for health insurance, pension, and life assurance. - **Scale the platform**: Growing the team (hiring across engineering, design, sales, and people functions) to support rapid customer acquisition and product development. - **Embedded benefits**: Growing the “Kota Embed” API to become the default way other platforms offer benefits. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Small, high-bar team where everyone owns real work from day one. Described as “first-class and ready for anything” with values of integrity and care. - **Remote/hybrid policy**: Hybrid/remote-friendly with a WFH stipend. Team is spread across Ireland, UK, Portugal, Italy, Spain, and Brazil. - **Notable perks**: Competitive salary, stock options, health insurance, up to 5% matched pension contribution, generous paid time off, WFH stipend. - **Engineering culture**: Opportunity to design a new category from scratch, work directly with founders, and ship work that reaches real employees on day one. Open roles include Product Engineer (Frontend/Backend), Senior Mobile Engineer, and Senior Product Designer. - **Impact**: Building infrastructure that supports employees through illness, loss, or retirement — a mission-driven, high-responsibility environment. ## Sources 1. [kota.io](https://www.kota.io/) 2. [kota.io/careers](https://www.kota.io/careers) 3. [kota.io/blog/series-a-announcement](https://www.kota.io/blog/series-a-announcement) 4. [LinkedIn - Kota](https://ie.linkedin.com/company/kotabenefits) 5. 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