Staff Backend Product Engineer
Productboard4 hours ago
Remote, PolandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the architectural layer that enables AI-first product engineering.
- Define API contracts, semantic naming conventions, module boundaries, and other agent-native architecture standards.
- 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, surface history, and suggest remediation.
- Build multi-step agent workflows with tool use, autonomous task execution, and human-gated checkpoints.
- Optimize AI code review to detect correctness, security, and maintainability issues earlier while reducing noise.
- Ship AI-first product features end-to-end and set technical direction in partnership with engineers, PMs, and designers.
- Shape product decisions and accelerate the cycle from idea to 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 experience using LLMs in real products, including prompt design, context management, evaluation, and trade-off analysis around 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 part of the engineering workflow.
- Experience as a founding engineer or founder, or demonstrated ability to take ideas from business insight through rapid prototypes and validation.
- Experience building agentic systems in production or conducting deep work with multi-step LLM workflows involving tool use, memory, and orchestration.
Benefits
- Stock options.
- MacBook and 34-inch monitor.
- Work-from-home stipend, flexible working hours, and home office support.
- 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 Program through Soulmio.
- One paid volunteer day per year and donation matching.
- Free snacks, drinks, and catered office lunches from White Circus.
- Free MultiSport card, on-site 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 unavailable, while relocation to Prague is supported with a one-time $6,000–$13,000 USD relocation bonus.
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.