Senior Backend Engineer, Productboard
Growth
Stock options available
Product management platform
Open for applications
Product management platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
Stock options available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help companies across the globe build truly excellent products.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 5+ years of experience in building scalable web applications with a strong focus on backend development
- Monetization and Retention Focus: Proven experience in solving growth-related challenges, particularly in the areas of monetization and customer retention
- Collaboration Skills: Demonstrated ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including product management, marketing, and data analysis, to drive business outcomes
- Business Acumen: Strong understanding of key business KPIs such as conversion, engagement, retention, and churn, and how backend systems can influence these metrics
- Proactive & Versatile: Capable of taking ownership of projects, even outside of your direct responsibilities, and comfortable working within other teams’ codebases (guest dev) to drive initiatives forward
- Data-Driven Development: Experience using A/B testing tools (Optimizely, LaunchDarkly) and telemetry/BI tools (Looker, Amplitude, MixPanel) to iterate quickly and measure the impact of your work
What the job involves
- As a leading B2B SaaS company transforming how product teams around the world build and manage products, we are expanding our internal Growth team in San Francisco
- We are looking for a seasoned Senior Backend Engineer to help architect and implement backend systems that are critical to our monetization and retention strategies
- The Growth team’s goal is to make it exceptionally easy for people around the world to discover, trial, buy, and use our suite of products and services
- As a result, our team is responsible for driving sustainable business growth by increasing acquisition, monetization, conversion, and retention throughout the end-to-end customer funnel
- We use experimentation, customer feedback, and data-driven insights to guide our work and optimize the customer experience
- Your work will focus on developing and optimizing backend systems that enable more effective monetization strategies, enhance customer retention, and streamline the product experience to better serve our users
- Monetization Optimization: Architect and refine backend systems that support dynamic pricing models and feature gating. You will work on backend logic that determines how features are packaged and made available to users across different pricing tiers, ensuring seamless scalability as our user base grows
- Retention Enhancement: Build and optimize backend services that gather and process user data to identify patterns related to churn and engagement. You’ll develop tools that allow the team to proactively address retention issues by providing personalized user experiences and recommendations
- Product-Qualified Lead Development: Collaborate on backend solutions that identify and track Product Qualified Leads (PQLs), integrating with sales and marketing systems to ensure these leads are effectively nurtured and converted into paying customers
- Collaborate with product, data, and design to build and test backend features that improve retention and monetization metrics
- Lead the backend development of new features and optimizations that directly contribute to the team’s growth objectives, such as contributing to our monetization platform or enhancing user segmentation tools
- Evaluate and integrate third-party tools or services that enhance our backend capabilities, particularly in areas critical to scaling our monetization and retention efforts
- Share your knowledge on backend engineering and growth strategies across the organization, promoting best practices and innovative approaches
- Be part of building the world’s first and best Product Platform that fundamentally changes how our industry approaches the craft of Product Management
- Your customers are going to be the best product teams and minds out there. You will have the opportunity to learn from and advance the work of the best of the best in your field
- Be a part of a growing and innovative, mission-driven company, with the opportunity to shape the future of our product and customer experience, and to define an entire new market category
- Collaborate with a talented and passionate team, dedicated to making products that matter, together
Our take
Productboard is a product management system which plays a major role in helping businesses understand their market, letting them get the best products to market quickly. The platform is particularly focused on helping companies understand what customers require from them, enabling sound decisions to be made on what to prioritize.
The platform organizes project management with customer feedback as its primary guiding factor, helping businesses identify the most important trends based on demand. The scope of its offerings enables it to provide thousands of leading companies with the various tools they need to drive growth. It continues to add new capabilities to bring extra value to this customer base.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Feb 2022
$125m
SERIES D
Apr 2021
$72m
SERIES C
Total funding: $257.7m
Company benefits
- Competitive stock options
- Continuous professional growth
- Investment into your health & wellness
- Free food and catered lunches
- Pet-friendly offices
Company values
- We Seek Clarity - Just like the best product teams, we seek to clarify the objectives behind our work. Life is too short to work on things that don’t matter
- We Relentlessly Improve - We all share a drive to be the best at what we do. We learn from the best to hone our crafts and draw inspiration from unlikely places
- We Act With Empathy - Like the best product makers, we have deep empathy for our end users, as well as prospects, colleagues, and job candidates
- We Foster Transparency - We champion openness by sharing our goals, success, and failures. Everyone has timely access to important company news and business metrics
- We Work Together - We work as one big team on a common mission, leveraging the diverse perspectives and expertise of our colleagues, wherever in the world each of us may be
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Hubert Palan
(Co-Founder & CEO)Startup Mentor, Advisor and Angel Investor. Previously VP of Product Management at GoodData and Head of Product and Marketing at Maestro Market.
Daniel Hejl
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously Senior Software Engineer at Trumaker, TopMonks and ICZ, as well as Software Engineer at Allianz Direct New Europe and Qbizm Technologies.
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