(Senior) Frontend Engineer - #2120665

bunch is building the backbone of private markets, combining exceptional expertise, operational excellence, and frictionless technology. The platform enables funds and private investors to seamlessly and securely set up and manage their investment entities.

We are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer who wants to play a pivotal role in growing our business and transforming the private markets industry.

How The Role Contributes To Our Vision

You’ll be at the forefront of building the frontend experience that powers bunch. We’re looking for someone who sees product development as a craft - a blend of technical excellence, user-centered thinking, and cross-functional collaboration.

Whether you’re shaping architecture, maintaining our Design System, or implementing features from scratch, your work will have a direct impact on thousands of users managing billions in assets. We offer you freedom and ownership to build the right solutions and influence the product roadmap.

Top Responsibilities

• Build robust, scalable, and well-tested frontend applications using modern frontend frameworks and our in-house Design System
• Collaborate with PMs, Designers, and QAs in a cross-functional team to ship high-quality features quickly
• Contribute to and evolve our frontend architecture, tooling, and design system
• Ensure a great developer experience and continuously improve performance and reliability
• Write meaningful unit and E2E tests
• Actively shape product solutions by participating in discovery, feedback rounds, and design critiques
  
  

If you're applying as a Senior:

• Take ownership of the frontend domain, influence platform-wide decisions
• Drive alignment between design and development, and collaborate on challenging UX cases
• Own and evolve our in-house Design System alongside the design team
• Guide the team in architecture and performance decisions
• Mentor and support other engineers
  
  

What You Should Bring With You

To thrive in our Product Development team, you combine a love for building excellent UIs with a pragmatic, product-first mindset. You're a strong communicator, a team player, and someone who thrives in a growing, fast-paced environment where asking "why" is encouraged.

You...

• Have 3+ years (Mid) or 5+ years (Senior) of experience building frontend applications
• Are fluent in TypeScript and comfortable with modern frontend frameworks
• Have experience working with Design Systems
• for Senior: also experience building or maintaining custom ones
• Are familiar with unit and E2E testing (Vitest, Playwright, or equivalents)
• Understand UI/UX principles and care about building elegant, accessible, and usable interfaces
• Can operate in ambiguity and turn loosely defined ideas into working software
• Have experience in a startup or scaleup environment
  
  

Nice to have:

• Previous exposure to fintech or highly regulated domains
• Experience with zod (or any other form validation tools)
• Worked with data visualisations (e.g., tables, charts)
  
  

Our tech stack

We strive to keep our technology stack simple, modern, and maintainable.

• Frontend: Svelte + SvelteKit, TypeScript, MeltUI (headless components), Feltform + zod
• Testing: Vitest (unit), Playwright (E2E)
• Design System: Custom-built (MeltUI)
• Backend: Node.js, NestJS, MySQL, Sequelize
• Infrastructure: Kubernetes (K8S) on top of AWS
• Third-Party Applications:
• FusionAuth for authentication
• Retool for low-code internal frontend solutions
• Twilio and SendGrid for sending SMS and emails
• Tally for creating custom forms
  

Why you should join bunch

• Become one of the key builders of our platform and shape our frontend culture
• Work with a highly collaborative team that values design, developer experience, and pragmatic delivery
• Flexible hours, remote-friendly culture, and 28 vacation days per year
• Competitive compensation package including equity
• A modern tech and work setup with all the tools you need
  
  

What Your Interview Journey Will Look Like

• First interview with the People team (20 min): get acquainted with the bunch and to understand if what we’re offering is what you’re searching for
• Deep-dive with the Tech team (60 min): experience what it’s like to work at bunch. Typically, there are 1 or 2 technical interviews where you will meet team members to assess your communication, collaboration skills, system design, and coding knowledge. The interviews focus on collaborative problem-solving, starting with open-ended questions and progressing to more specific challenges or short algorithm tasks.
• Deep-dive II - Product (60 min): collaborate with our product team on a discovery scenario. Our product team will present a customer problem, and together we will explore potential solutions. This assesses your communication skills and system design experience
• Final Round: Meet our VP of Product (30 min) and our People Lead (15 min) for you to learn about ways of working and team culture.
  
  

About Bunch

bunch is an investment tech startup founded in Berlin in 2021. With a proven track record, bunch has garnered trust from leading fund managers and institutional LPs, who have collectively committed over €2 billion through the platform.

The private markets are experiencing unprecedented growth, with alternative assets expected to reach nearly $40 trillion by the end of the decade, yet still reliant on outdated tools and methods.

We recently closed our $15.5 million Series A to accelerate bunch’s mission to bring a trillion-dollar industry into the 21st century, driving a much-needed digital transformation.

At bunch, we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees because we value and celebrate diversity. We are an equal opportunity employer, which means we do not tolerate discrimination toward any of our applicants or employees.