About the Position

Staff Frontend Engineer

Portugal

bunch is building the backbone of private markets. We are enabling next-gen fund operations with one integrated system that combines secure data infrastructure, AI-powered workflows, and expert fund services. If you value ownership, growth through real responsibility, and working with a thoughtful, ambitious team, this role might be for you.

Responsibilities

As a Staff Frontend Engineer at bunch, you will shape the architecture, quality, and developer experience of the product surfaces our customers and internal teams rely on every day. You will work across product teams to make our frontend systems scalable, reliable, accessible, and fast - while helping engineers ship with clarity and confidence.

Top Priorities

Lead our migration from Svelte to React. Hold the architectural picture across both stacks, sequence the work against product delivery, and land it without stalling teams.
Maintain and evolve our design system, together with the frontend guild, so product teams ship consistent, accessible UI faster.
Support and guide frontend initiatives across teams, with the frontend guild - application architecture, performance, testing strategy, developer experience, and technical debt reduction - from diagnosis through measurable delivery.
Be the bar raiser for UX and UI quality, raising the standard through design reviews, reusable patterns, mentoring, and thoughtful technical writing.
Advance how we build with AI - find where agentic tooling genuinely improves engineering practice, and shape the codebase (module boundaries, API contracts, documentation) so it works well for people and agents alike.

Requirements

Track record - You have already operated at Staff scope, with or without the title, and have shipped systemic frontend or product-engineering improvements across multiple teams. People listen to you because of what you have delivered, how clearly you think, and how effectively you collaborate.
Frontend craft - Deep expertise in modern frontend engineering, with strong command of TypeScript, component architecture, state management, design systems, accessibility, performance, testing, and maintainable application architecture.
AI-native practice - You use AI coding tools daily and have gone past autocomplete into agentic workflows. You have a considered view on where they genuinely help, where they don't, and what a codebase needs to be a good place to work in with agents.
Product judgment - You care about the user experience as much as the technical solution. You can translate ambiguous workflows and business constraints into pragmatic, elegant product experiences.
Systems thinking - You are comfortable reasoning across frontend, backend, APIs, infrastructure, observability, security, and compliance when the problem requires it.
Operating style - You think in quarters and years, not only sprints. You drive cross-team change through credibility, clear writing, architectural reasoning, and strong stakeholder alignment - not through authority.
Collaborative Leadership: A proactive relationship-builder who can set technical direction and influence without formal authority, manage diverse stakeholders and build alignment on difficult technical decisions, while mentoring engineers.
Language - Fluent English, written and spoken. You can make complex technical decisions legible to engineers, product partners, design partners, and leadership alike.

Our Tech Stack

Frontend: TypeScript, React, Svelte
Backend: TypeScript, Node.js, Nest.js
Database: MySQL
Infrastructure: Kubernetes on AWS
Source Control & CI/CD: GitHub
Authentication: FusionAuth, Okta
Internal Tools: Retool
Messaging: Twilio, SendGrid
Forms: Tally

Workplace & Benefits

Customizable benefits package covering wellbeing, sport, mobility, food, and more
28 days of vacation, plus 2 company days and local public holidays
Remote setup, contract via EoR.
A great tech and work setup
Work with a diverse team of 130+ bunchies from 40+ countries, with leaders who are best-in-class in their domains

About bunch

bunch is building the operating infrastructure for the next generation of private markets. We combine AI-powered automation with deep regulatory expertise to replace fragmented spreadsheets and manual processes with one integrated platform across the fund lifecycle, purpose-built for private markets heading toward $32 trillion in Assets Under Management.

We've 4x our ARR in 2025, crossed 150 fund managers and 12,000 LPs on the platform, and just closed our $35M Series B in May 2026. We're looking for ambitious people who want real ownership of hard problems, and who care about building infrastructure that actually matters to the people using it.

At bunch, we're committed to an inclusive environment where diversity is valued and celebrated. We provide equal opportunities to all qualified applicants.

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Staff Frontend Engineer

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