Senior Frontend Engineer

Job description

Location: Prague or Brno 🇨🇿

About the Role:

We’re looking for a Senior Fullstack Engineer to join our Roadmaps team, one of the most used and visually dynamic parts of Productboard. You’ll work on complex, user-facing features that help our customers visualize and plan their product strategies, ensuring our Roadmaps remain high-performing, delightful, and ready to support a wide array of use cases.

In this role, you’ll collaborate daily with our Product Manager, Product Designer, Engineering Manager, and eight other engineers at various levels—from junior to staff. You’ll be a key contributor to architecture discussions, code reviews, and observability efforts, leveraging React & TypeScript on the frontend, and Kotlin & Spring Boot on the backend within a distributed environment using federated GraphQL for data fetching.

Beyond hands-on coding, you’ll play a pivotal role in mentoring and guiding the team, contributing to our culture of customer-centricity, collaboration, and ownership. As part of a hybrid work setup, you’ll join us frequently in our Prague office to foster deeper connections with your peers, while still having the flexibility to collaborate remotely. If you’re excited to shape the future of a high-impact, feature-rich product area alongside an experienced team, we’d love to hear from you!

What You’ll Achieve:

• Build End-to-End Features: You’ll craft intuitive, performant frontends in React while building and refining the backend systems that power them. Your work will directly impact thousands of product teams worldwide.
• Develop Across the Entire Tech Stack: You’ll work comfortably across backend services (Kotlin, Ruby, GraphQL, Postgres) and frontend (React, TypeScript), ensuring seamless integrations and cohesive user experiences.
• Solve Complex Product Challenges: You’ll bring your creativity to tackle challenging technical and product problems, being involved in every phase of development—from concept to implementation and beyond.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: You will work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver impactful results in an iterative, learning-focused development process.
• Gain Customer Insight: By understanding customer needs and usage patterns, you will inform design decisions and shape features that resonate with users.
• Drive Observability and Quality: You will contribute to building scalable, observable systems, ensuring that both backend and frontend components are robust and easy to maintain.
• Grow Professionally: You’ll continue to develop your skills and grow your expertise within a culture that encourages continuous learning and experimentation.

Skills You’ll Bring:

• Proven Fullstack Engineering Experience: 5+ years of engineering experience, including significant frontend and backend contributions on customer-facing products.
• Frontend Expertise: Experience building intuitive, performant interfaces using React and TypeScript. Comfortable with component design, state management, and frontend performance optimization.
• Backend Expertise: Strong experience with Kotlin (or Java), Ruby, or similar languages, with a solid understanding of designing APIs and working with relational databases.
• Pragmatic & Business-Oriented: You balance craft, speed, and business impact, choosing practical solutions over chasing trends.
• System Thinking: You understand how frontend, backend, and infrastructure work together, and how to optimize performance across the stack.
• GraphQL Experience: Familiarity with GraphQL, ideally with federated architecture, and an understanding of effective schema design.
• Collaborative and Empathetic: You communicate effectively, respect diverse perspectives, and prioritize building a positive, inclusive team culture.
• Focused on Delivery: You prioritize well, aligning your work with customer and team goals, while delivering incremental value.
• User-Centric: You build with customer needs in mind, making thoughtful trade-offs to balance speed, quality, and user impact.
• Curious and Adaptable: Eager to learn new technologies, patterns, and systems, and unphased by managing multiple projects in a dynamic environment.
• Startup Mentality: Self-motivated, adaptable, and able to thrive in an environment with both stability and room for individual impact.

Nice to Haves:

• Technical Depth: Advanced skills in areas such as GraphQL, frontend performance optimization, distributed systems, or infrastructure automation.
• UI/UX Sensibility: An eye for design and user experience that helps create polished, intuitive interfaces.
• Infrastructure Interest: Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS), CI/CD pipelines, or observability tools.
• Diverse Interests: Passions outside of tech are valued and enrich our team’s perspectives.

What’s in it for you?

• Be part of building the world’s first and best Product Platform that fundamentally changes how our industry approaches product management.
• Your customers are among the best product teams globally, giving you a unique opportunity to learn and advance your craft.
• Join a mission-driven company where you can shape our product, customer experience, and the future of our category.
• Collaborate with talented, passionate people who care about building meaningful products.

You can look forward to the following benefits:

💰Stock options

💻 MacBook + 34″ monitor

📚 Budget for online courses, books, and conferences

🏝️ 5 weeks of vacation + 9 sick days

🫶 Volunteer Days 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

About Productboard

Productboard exists to help the best product minds out there make products that matter, together. We believe we all deserve to live in a world filled with extraordinary products - products that exceed our expectations in both functionality and delight.

That is why we made our purpose-built and customer-centric product management platform that helps organizations get the right products to market, faster. More than 6,000 companies, including Microsoft, Zoom, Salesforce, and Cartier, use Productboard to understand what users need, prioritize what to build next, and rally everyone around their roadmap.

With offices in San Francisco, Prague, London, Dublin, and Brno, Productboard is backed by leading investors like Tiger Global Management, Dragoneer Investment Group, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Credo Ventures.

We are very well funded and financially stable Series D company, with a validated product market fit and a massive future market opportunity.

• Join at the golden startup age — established stability with large space for innovation and individual impact
• You’ll enjoy an exciting team atmosphere, building a whole new category of software
• You can help change the way that products are built all over the world
• We iterate quickly and decisions are fast. You’ll have a voice in what we do and see the impact of your work
• We are backed by top Silicon Valley investors, giving us access to capital, networks, mentors, and new markets
• We are recognized as a leading tech startup in our category, named by Forbes magazine and Business Insider as one of the best startup employers to bet your career on, and are regularly recognized for our company culture

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 communication, we don’t waste time on politics or ego. We champion openness by sharing our goals, success, and failures.

Join colleagues who love what they do and who are invested in their work environment and the future of the company. Help shape our company, culture, and product!

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and champion equity. It is our 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 upon 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.