diff --git a/plugins/kubernetes-backend/api-report.md b/plugins/kubernetes-backend/api-report.md
index 051706bbd5..158b917a48 100644
--- a/plugins/kubernetes-backend/api-report.md
+++ b/plugins/kubernetes-backend/api-report.md
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ import { Logger } from 'winston';
 import type { ObjectsByEntityResponse } from '@backstage/plugin-kubernetes-common';
 import { PermissionEvaluator } from '@backstage/plugin-permission-common';
 import { PluginEndpointDiscovery } from '@backstage/backend-common';
-import type { RequestHandler } from 'express';
+import { RequestHandler } from 'http-proxy-middleware';
 import { TokenCredential } from '@azure/identity';
 
 // @public (undocumented)
diff --git a/plugins/kubernetes-backend/src/service/KubernetesProxy.ts b/plugins/kubernetes-backend/src/service/KubernetesProxy.ts
index cf06be6bba..d2a3649c27 100644
--- a/plugins/kubernetes-backend/src/service/KubernetesProxy.ts
+++ b/plugins/kubernetes-backend/src/service/KubernetesProxy.ts
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import {
 import { bufferFromFileOrString } from '@kubernetes/client-node';
 import { createProxyMiddleware, RequestHandler } from 'http-proxy-middleware';
 import { Logger } from 'winston';
+
 import { AuthenticationStrategy } from '../auth';
 import { ClusterDetails, KubernetesClustersSupplier } from '../types/types';