Staff Back-end DevX Engineer

About Us We’re Productboard’s Developer Experience (DevX) team: four people—three ICs and a manager—working remotely across the Czech Republic. Our mission is to boost engineering velocity and developer happiness by creating simple, powerful tooling and paved paths. We treat DevX like a product: we listen to feedback, measure outcomes, and focus on the highest-impact work so teams can ship faster with less friction and more confidence. Our Tech Stack

• Backend: Kotlin, Go , Python, TypeScript/Node.js, Ruby, Kafka
• Frontend: TypeScript, React, Relay, Nx, Storybook, Vite & Vitest
• Storage: Postgres, Elastic, Redis
• Data: Python, Keboola, Looker, Snowflake
• Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Argo CD, Cloudflare

What You Will Do

• Build and evolve Kotlin services and frameworks that streamline the inner loop (APIs, build/test tooling, automation, paved paths).
• Maintain and improve our internal developer tool written in Golang
• Accelerate CI/CD: improve caching/parallelism, increase test reliability, and shorten feedback cycles.
• Partner across teams to standardise workflows, enable self-serve integrations, and reduce cross-team friction.
• Instrument and improve: define DX metrics (lead time, build time, flakiness), run experiments, and iterate based on data.
• Improve reliability and safety with sensible defaults—observability, guardrails, and secure-by-default patterns.

What We Are Looking For

• Experience with Kotlin/Java in production (JVM performance, testing, dependency management).
• Solid grasp of cloud-native engineering (containers, Kubernetes; AWS/IaC a plus).
• Pragmatic approach to developer platforms, internal tooling, and CI/CD at scale.
• Nice to have: exposure to Go and interest in multi-language ecosystems.
• Strong communication skills and collaborative mindset
• Curiosity, adaptability, and a proactive, startup-friendly attitude

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Previous experience with working on developer or internal tooling
• Contributing to open source

You Can Look Forward to the Following Benefits 💰 Stock options 💻 MacBook + 34″ monitor 📚 Budget for online courses, books, and conferences 🏝 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 every day 🏋 MultiSport card to access sports facilities 🍹 Team events, such as happy hours, off-sites, and retreats ⏱ 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 team

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.