Staff Backend Product Engineer (Prague/Brno/Remote EU)
Productboard6 months ago
Remote, Czechia or Prague, CzechiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead architectural work for AI-native codebases, including API contracts, semantic naming, and module boundaries.
- Build repo-versioned context infrastructure used by AI coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex.
- Develop self-healing incident workflows that triage alerts, retrieve logs and history, and suggest remediation with human oversight.
- Build multi-step agent workflows with tool use, autonomous task execution, and human-gated checkpoints for product features.
- Create evaluation systems and workflows that improve the correctness, security, and maintainability of AI-generated code.
- Ship AI-first product features end-to-end while setting technical direction and shaping product decisions with engineers, PMs, and designers.
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-off analysis 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 development workflow, with the ability to refine prompts and identify tool limitations.
- Experience building agentic systems in production or performing deep work with multi-step LLM workflows involving tool use, memory, and orchestration.
- Experience as a founding engineer or founder, or as a 0-to-1 engineer who can turn business insights into prototypes and validate ideas quickly, is a strong fit.
Benefits
- Stock options.
- MacBook and 34-inch monitor.
- Work-from-home stipend for home office setup.
- Five weeks of vacation, nine sick days, flexible working hours, and home office flexibility.
- Budget for online courses, books, and conferences.
- Two weeks of fully paid parental leave and fertility and family-building support through Carrot.
- Mental Wellness Program through Soulmio.
- One paid Volunteer Day per year and donation matching.
- Free snacks, drinks, catered office lunches, MultiSport card, fitness equipment, team events, and year-round access to Prague Zoo.
- Candidates must already have the legal right to work in the EU; visa sponsorship is not provided, but relocation to Prague is supported for eligible candidates.
- One-time relocation bonus of $6,000–$13,000 USD depending on personal circumstances.
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.