Staff AI Product Engineer (Prague/Brno/Remote EU)
Productboardover 1 year ago
Prague, CzechiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead architectural work for an AI-native codebase, including API contracts, semantic naming, and module boundaries.
- Build repo-versioned context infrastructure that improves the output of Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex.
- Develop self-healing incident workflows that triage alerts, retrieve logs and history, and suggest remediation.
- Build multi-step agent workflows with tool use, autonomous task execution, and human-gated checkpoints for product features.
- Create evaluation and optimization systems for AI code review that detect correctness, security, and maintainability issues.
- Ship AI-first product features end-to-end while setting technical direction and deciding what to build.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to accelerate validated learning.
Requirements
- 6–10+ years of production software engineering experience.
- Strong backend skills in Python, Kotlin, or Java, including experience evolving service-level logic and infrastructure.
- Hands-on LLM experience in real products, including prompt design, context management, evaluation, and trade-offs involving hallucinations, latency, cost, and reliability.
- Experience with distributed systems and event-driven architectures, including queues, asynchronous processing, and service-to-service communication.
- Daily use of AI coding tools as a core workflow, with the ability to refine prompts and understand tool limitations.
- Experience as a founding engineer or founder, or as a 0-to-1 engineer who turns business insights into prototypes.
- Experience building agentic systems in production or deep experience with multi-step LLM workflows, including tool use, memory, and orchestration.
- Existing legal authorization to work in the EU.
Benefits
- Stock options.
- MacBook and 34-inch monitor.
- Work-from-home stipend and flexible home-office arrangements.
- Five weeks of vacation and nine sick days.
- Budget for online courses, books, and conferences.
- Two weeks of fully paid parental leave.
- Fertility and family-building support through Carrot.
- Mental wellness support through Soulmio.
- One volunteer day per year, donation matching, and team events including happy hours, off-sites, and retreats.
- Free snacks, drinks, catered office lunches, MultiSport card, on-site fitness equipment, and year-round Prague Zoo access.
- Prague relocation support with a one-time relocation bonus of $6,000–$13,000 USD.
- Work location options include Prague, Brno, or remote within the EU.
Tech Stack
AWSCloudflareGraphQLKotlinKubernetesMongoDBPostgreSQLPythonReactRedisRubySnowflakeTerraformTypeScript
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About Productboard
Productboard builds a product management platform for product teams to centralize customer feedback, prioritize features, and plan delivery roadmaps. Offered as a SaaS subscription, it includes Productboard Spark, an AI agent that lets users interact with product data and support core workflows. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco with an office in Prague, the privately held company counts Zoom, Autodesk, and Salesforce among its customers.