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title: 'Product and Engineering talent pool at Kota'
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# Product and Engineering talent pool at Kota

- **Company:** Kota
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kota/76121c81-fbc5-4297-b9cd-302b5d9b160d

## 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)

Product and engineering at Kota, always open to exceptional people Dublin, London or remote across Europe

Some of these are live roles right now, others aren't yet. Either way, we're building a pool of people we'd want to hire into product and engineering at Kota as we grow over the next few months.

We don't hire for a language or a framework, and our engineering roles are full stack. Integrations is the one place we'd expect a backend lean, and even there nobody stops at the edge of one codebase. Benefits is a genuinely hard domain, multi-provider, multi-country and largely unmodernised, and the learning curve is the product rather than the stack. If you'd rather own a problem end to end than pick up well-specified tickets, we want to hear from you.

Who this is for

- Product engineer: you make product calls, not just technical ones, and you'd rather talk to a customer than wait for a spec
- API: on Embed the API is the product, not the plumbing, and you've built things other developers had to live with
- Integrations: multi-provider, multi-market, and the systems we don't control. The one place we'd expect a backend lean
- Product lead: you own vision and strategy for an area, and you've shipped something from nothing
- Product design: high craft bar, comfortable with complex workflows, and you sweat the states nobody else looks at
- Leadership: you've led engineers or designers and you're still close enough to the work to be useful
- AI-native, whatever your title: you use AI to plan, build and review, and you're critical about what it gives you
- Something else: if none of those quite fit but you can see where you'd add something here, tell us

What happens next If what you've told us matches a live role, we'll move you into that process.

If it doesn't yet, you'll be in the pool and we'll come back to you when something opens that fits. We're a small team, so we can't promise a conversation with everyone who applies, but we do read everything and we'd rather hear from you early than not at all.

## 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. [Jobs.ashbyhq.com - Kota](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kota)

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