Staff Backend Product Engineer
Productboard4 hours ago
Remote, EMEASenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Lead architectural work for AI-native backend product engineering.
- Define agent-native API contracts, semantic naming standards, and module boundaries.
- Build context infrastructure that supplies repo-versioned guidance to 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 execution, and human-gated checkpoints for product features.
- Improve AI code review to detect correctness, security, and maintainability issues while reducing review noise.
- Ship AI-first product features end-to-end with engineers, product managers, and designers.
- Set technical direction and help determine which product ideas are worth building.
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, 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 building agentic systems in production or working deeply with multi-step LLM workflows such as tool use, memory, and orchestration.
- Experience as a founding engineer or founder and the ability to turn business insights into prototypes is described as a strong fit.
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 program through Soulmio.
- One paid volunteer day per year, plus donation matching.
- Free snacks, drinks, and catered lunches at the office.
- Free MultiSport card and on-site fitness facilities.
- Team events, 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 relocation bonus of $6,000–$13,000 USD.
- Candidates must have the legal right to work in the EU; the role supports flexible working and home-office arrangements.
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.