(Sr.) Staff Product Engineer (Frontend & Platform)

This role is primarily based in our Prague or Brno office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. We’re hiring a (Sr.) Staff Product Engineer with strong architectural thinking and meaningful frontend exposure who can help evolve our product experience and shared platform foundations. This person operates at the intersection of product strategy and technical execution, contributing to architecture decisions that enable Productboard to scale. They are a multiplier of engineers across teams, a thoughtful partner to leadership, and a pragmatic technical leader who creates clarity, reduces complexity, and drives cross-team leverage through high-impact collaboration. On a typical day, you will… As a (Sr.) Staff Product Engineer, you’ll operate at the intersection of long-term product strategy and technical reality, using your frontend expertise to shape how we build and evolve Productboard at scale. A “day” might look like:

• Translate product strategy into architectural decisions and contribute to shaping technical roadmaps — especially where architectural decisions directly impact product velocity, usability, and long-term scalability.
• Evolve frontend architecture and shared platform foundations. Contribute to the evolution of our frontend systems and shared platform capabilities, including UI infrastructure, state and data patterns, performance strategy, developer workflows, and how frontend and backend systems interact at scale.
• Create leverage across teams. Build reusable patterns, libraries, and platform capabilities that enable dozens of engineers to ship safely and quickly — raising the baseline for quality, usability, and iteration speed.
• Drive alignment through clarity. Write clear RFCs / ADRs and collaborate with teams to align on technical decisions and trade-offs.
• Guide complex cross-team execution. Step into the most critical and complex cross-team initiatives — shaping direction, unblocking progress, and ensuring solutions remain pragmatic and durable.
• Contribute to the modernization of legacy constraints. Help evolve legacy frontend systems (e.g., fragmented patterns, scaling bottlenecks, brittle UI foundations), building buy-in and staging migrations so value continues flowing.
• Support and grow senior engineers. Mentor others and help expand their architectural thinking and scope.
• Champion customer value. Ensure architectural choices increase product velocity and elevate usability, reliability, performance, and craft.

About you We’re looking for a Senior or Staff-level Engineer who pairs strong architectural depth with frontend fluency and technical leadership — someone who can influence long-term direction while staying grounded in pragmatic execution. This role is well suited for senior engineers who have led architectural initiatives within a team and are ready to expand their impact across a broader product and platform surface. Your background can be frontend-first, full-stack, or backend-heavy with strong frontend understanding.

You are a strong match if you:

• Think in systems and horizons. You think beyond immediate features and can identify architectural risks and opportunities that impact the next phase of growth.
• Have strong frontend fluency and architectural depth. You bring a strong understanding of modern frontend architecture and can reason about trade-offs across frontend, backend, APIs, and data flows.
• Create leverage, not dependency. Your instinct is to make others faster and more successful through patterns, tooling, and shared platforms — not by becoming a bottleneck.
• Communicate with clarity and influence. You can translate complex engineering trade-offs into narratives leaders can act on, and can write short, high-leverage docs that drive alignment quickly.
• Make pragmatic trade-offs. You’re opinionated, but not dogmatic. You seek the simplest path to meaningful value, and you know when to build durable foundations vs. when to iterate and learn.
• Own outcomes. You don’t just “deliver a solution” — you take responsibility for the real-world impact of your decisions across product metrics, team velocity, and system health.
• Raise the bar through craft. You care deeply about quality, usability, and maintainability, and you lead by example — shaping engineering practices and standards across teams.
• Grow other technical leaders. You have experience mentoring senior engineers and helping them grow their scope and influence.

Bonus points if you:

• Have led a design system / component platform at scale, including governance and adoption.
• Have driven frontend performance strategy across a large product surface.
• Have successfully modernized legacy frontend architecture while keeping product delivery moving.
• Have experience shaping engineering strategy with Directors / VPs and influencing a broader organization.
• Experience with backend systems, distributed architectures, or event-driven systems (e.g., GraphQL, Kafka, JVM ecosystem) is a plus.

You can look forward to the following benefits:

• Stock options
• MacBook
• Budget for online courses & books
• 5 weeks of vacation + sick days
• 1 Volunteer Day per year for you to help causes close to your heart
• Carrot Fertility Benefits
• Free snacks, drinks, and yummy catered lunches
• MultiSport card to access sports facilities
• Flexible working hours and home office
• Parental benefits
• Language lessons
• Mental Wellness Program to support your well-being and self-care
• Hone – Live, interactive learning programs for managers, leaders, and teams

About Productboard

At Productboard, we’re on a mission to help product teams build exceptional products with clarity and confidence. As the leading intelligent product management platform, we empower over 4,000 companies, including Salesforce, SAP, Autodesk, and Kroger, to understand what customers need, prioritize what to build next, and align everyone around a shared roadmap. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Prague and Brno, Czechia, we’re backed by some of the world’s most respected investors, including Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Tiger Global, and Dragoneer. We’re proud to be consistently recognized as one of the best places to work by BuiltIn and Comparably, and to count ourselves among the world’s leading unicorn companies. Well-funded and financially disciplined, we have the stability and runway to build boldly for the long term. Over the past few years, we’ve rearchitected our platform from the ground up to serve enterprise scale and set the foundation for the next era of product management. Now we’re entering an exciting new phase with Productboard Spark, our AI-first, agentic experience that transforms how product teams work. Spark is a true collaborator that deeply understands your product context, company strategy, and customer needs, helping teams move faster and make smarter, more confident decisions. Join us as we build the future of product management.

About our culture

Imagine working in a place where everything matters — most importantly, you. At Productboard, values aren’t just something we like to talk about, they’re something we live and breathe. We believe in creating a work environment where:

• People feel empowered, supported, and included
• Trust and transparency are built into the way we work
• Creativity, curiosity, and continuous improvement are encouraged and nurtured every day

Forming our company values was a group effort, with every employee allowed to contribute. From profit-sharing initiatives, like stock options, to open calendars and communication, we don’t waste time on politics or ego. We champion openness by sharing our goals, successes, and failures. Join colleagues who are passionate about what they do. Team members who are invested in their work environment, and the future of Productboard. Help shape our company, culture, and product! Check out our LinkedIn Life page, or listen to our People of Productboard podcast for a real feel of what life is like at Productboard. Equal Opportunity Employer Statement We are an equal opportunity employer and champion equity. We aim to help people from all backgrounds, cultures, and groups realize their full potential at Productboard. We do not tolerate any discrimination or harassment based on gender identity, race, color, religion, age, sexual orientation, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other bias covered by appropriate law. All aspects of employment, including hiring, training, promotion, and terminations, are based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We are committed to an inclusive hiring process and provide all candidates with equal opportunity to demonstrate their abilities. Togetherness is one of our core values, and our Diversity Council helps to ensure that we uphold the values of authenticity, humanity, and diversity to create an environment where every person matters. We are committed to leading by example to drive societal change.