Staff AI Product Engineer
Productboard4 hours ago
Remote, EMEAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the architectural work that makes the codebase AI-native.
- Define API contracts, semantic naming, module boundaries, and agent-native architecture standards.
- Build repo-versioned context infrastructure used by AI coding tools.
- Develop self-healing incident workflows that triage alerts, inspect logs, and suggest remediation.
- Build multi-step agent workflows with tool use, autonomous execution, and human-gated checkpoints for product features.
- Optimize AI code review to detect correctness, security, and maintainability issues while reducing noise.
- Ship AI-first product features end-to-end while setting technical direction and shaping product decisions.
- Own outcomes from idea through validated learning in collaboration 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 experience building real products with LLMs, including prompt design, context management, and evaluation.
- Understanding of LLM trade-offs including 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 is a strong fit, as is experience building agentic systems or multi-step LLM workflows involving tool use, memory, or orchestration.
- Ability to turn business insights into prototypes and validate ideas quickly.
Benefits
- Stock options.
- MacBook and a 34-inch monitor.
- Work-from-home stipend for home office setup.
- Five weeks of vacation and nine sick days.
- Flexible working hours and home-office flexibility.
- 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.
- Free MultiSport card.
- On-site bouldering wall, boxing bag, and workout mats.
- Team events including happy hours, off-sites, and retreats.
- Free year-round access to Prague Zoo.
- Relocation support to Prague for candidates already authorized to work in the EU, including 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.