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Kota · 1 month ago

Senior Product Engineer (Frontend), Developer Products

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

8+ years exp

Kota is a company focused on making insurance and retirement benefits more accessible through innovative technology. They are seeking a Senior Product Engineer (Frontend) to shape user experiences and develop embedded UIs and JavaScript SDKs for their products, working closely with designers and backend engineers to create reliable and performant solutions.

AppsFinancial ServicesFinTechInsuranceInsurTechRetirement

Responsibilities

Drive innovation: Build and enhance frontend products across our interconnected platforms, including JavaScript SDKs, embedded UIs, and web applications

Collaborate for impact: Work closely with teams across Kota to refine user experiences, ensuring excellent customer journeys and operational efficiency. Partner with backend engineers to design type-safe API contracts that enable great frontend experiences

Architect for the future: Research, design, and implement enhancements that strengthen our product and developer experience. Build systems that scale across numerous insurance providers without creating maintenance nightmares

Architecting and building complex multi-provider insurance flows with sophisticated form validation (cross-field dependencies, conditional logic based on age/provider, Zod schemas with deep refinements)

Building embeddable SDK components with iframe management, PostMessage event systems, and theme customization for seamless third-party integration

Optimizing performance - implementing debouncing strategies and efficient Zod schema patterns to eliminate keystroke lag in complex forms

Debugging and optimizing production systems - tracing issues through 4-layer validation stacks (client, server, API, provider) using Datadog distributed tracing

Transforming complex insurance requirements into intuitive, accessible user experiences that make insurance feel simple

Qualification

ReactTypeScriptComplex form handlingType-safe API integrationModern frameworksSophisticated state managementComponent systemsTesting strategiesAI-tool fluencyPerformance obsessionSystems thinkingProduct-minded engineeringCollaborative mindsetCross-functional experience

Required

8+ years building modern frontend systems with expertise in React + TypeScript with deep understanding of hooks, context, composition patterns, generics, conditional types, and type inference

Complex form handling with React Hook Form (or similar), Zod validation, multi-step wizards, cross-field dependencies, and conditional business logic

Modern frameworks - React Router 7 or Next.js experience (SSR, progressive enhancement, loaders/actions patterns)

Type-safe API integration - contract-first development with @ts-rest, tRPC, or GraphQL with codegen

Sophisticated state management - knowing when to use XState, React Context, URL state, server state; architecting data flows across boundaries

Component systems - building accessible, reusable libraries with Radix UI, Tailwind CSS, design system patterns

Testing strategies - Vitest, Playwright, Storybook for component development and visual testing

Ambition and self-starting - you identify opportunities without being asked, propose solutions backed by technical analysis, and drive projects forward by unblocking yourself and coordinating with others

AI-tool fluency - you use Claude, Cursor, Copilot, or ChatGPT daily to prototype, refactor, test, and debug faster; you know when to trust AI and when to verify

Performance obsession - you optimize for speed in embedded contexts, caring deeply about TTFP and aiming for native-like performance; you measure, profile, and iterate to eliminate bottlenecks

Systems thinking - you see patterns across different providers and build reusable abstractions; you balance type safety with pragmatism and architect for maintainability

Product-minded engineering - you care about UX, edge cases, error messages, loading states, and accessibility; you measure impact using analytics and user feedback

Collaborative mindset - you thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy solving complex challenges

Cross-functional experience - you have experience collaborating directly with product teams and designers, and a proven track record of delivering value to customers or users

Availability: At least 5 hours of overlap with GMT working hours