Senior Staff Software Engineer, Productboard

Salary not provided

Plus stock options

React
AWS
CSS
TypeScript
HTML
Elasticsearch
Redis
Node.js
Postgres
Excel
Ruby
Kotlin
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

3-5 days a week in office

Productboard

Customer-centric product management platform.

Open for applications

Productboard

Customer-centric product management platform.

201-500 employees

B2BEnterpriseVisualisationSaaSProduct Management

Open for applications

Salary not provided

Plus stock options

React
AWS
CSS
TypeScript
HTML
Elasticsearch
Redis
Node.js
Postgres
Excel
Ruby
Kotlin
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

3-5 days a week in office

201-500 employees

B2BEnterpriseVisualisationSaaSProduct Management

Company mission

To help companies across the globe build truly excellent products.

Role

Who you are

  • 8+ years of engineering experience, demonstrating a history of developing world-class product experiences within a team
  • Experience with breaking down complex problems into manageable solutions, considering both technical and business implications
  • Extensive experience in efficiently scaling UIs to accommodate rapid growth and changing demands, leveraging web technologies including HTML, CSS, TypeScript, and React
  • A thorough understanding of how different system components, from the user interface to the data model, work together. Your expertise goes beyond just technical skills, including experience in leading teams to effectively scale and optimize backend systems, especially to meet growing user demands
  • Adaptability in learning and using different technologies, you are not bound by any single tool or language
  • Strong leadership and mentorship skills where you excel at driving projects and coordinating with cross-functional teams, as well as, you are deeply invested in your team's growth and development
  • We're looking for skilled and enthusiastic individuals from diverse backgrounds to join our team
  • Don't worry if your experience doesn't match all the criteria in the job description. If you love building and are committed to making quality products while sharing our company values, we'd like to hear from you

Desirable

  • Experience with Node.js, Ruby, Kotlin, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, AWS
  • We appreciate candidates who have passions beyond technology, whether it's in the arts, history, social sciences, or any other field
  • Experience or a keen interest in the infrastructure aspects of building top-notch software products can be a significant asset

What the job involves

  • The Insights Experience team at Productboard manages a platform that gathers user feedback from interviews, emails, support tickets, and direct customer responses
  • This platform is important for setting Productboard apart in its market by ensuring our customers can identify what to prioritize based on user needs
  • As a Senior Staff Software Engineer in this team, your job is to build and improve this platform
  • This is crucial for keeping us competitive and making sure our products meet our customers' needs. You'll do more than just code; you'll need to understand how your work helps our customers and influences our product direction
  • You’ll provide technical leadership and empower the team members to grow professionally, setting high standards, sharing knowledge, and identifying future technical leaders
  • Your strategic influence will be instrumental in steering our technology stack and architecture, laying the groundwork for sustainable growth
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams and active participation in strategic planning are essential aspects of your role
  • You'll align technical decisions with our broader business objectives and proactively identify and address potential challenges
  • While developing our user-facing product, you'll exercise freedom and ownership in driving improvements to performance, scalability, and robustness, extending your impact across the entire tech stack
  • Lead the team and support your colleagues. You'll help your teammates grow by sharing knowledge, giving feedback, and setting high standards for how we work
  • Play a key role in making critical decisions that shape our technology stack and architecture
  • Actively participate in the planning process, making sure that the technical decisions match the business goals. You'll work to identify and handle potential issues, plan for growth, and stay updated on new technologies to help us stay competitive
  • You'll have a significant hand in building and refining our user-facing product. Your work will directly impact our users as you ship your contributions to production regularly, ensuring the product's performance, scalability, and robustness
  • Bring your creativity to resolve challenging technical issues and be involved in every phase of feature development – from concept to implementation and beyond
  • Work alongside engineering leaders, product managers, designers, and other partners
  • Dive into customer experiences to gain valuable insights, driving user engagement and shaping new features. Your work will make our product more engaging and personalized, resonating with our users' needs

Our take

Productboard is a product management system, which plays a major role in helping businesses understand their market, getting the best products to market quickly. The platform is particularly focused on helping companies understand what customers require for them, enabling sound decisions to be made on what to prioritize.

The company has created a platform that organizes project management with customer feedback as its primary guiding factor, helping businesses identify the most important trends based on what their customers demand. The scope of its offerings means that the company provides over 6,000 leading companies with a centralized hub for various tools to drive growth.

For instance, the platform now provides a roadmap for product management, which is based on this customer insight and requirements of the business. This allows for everyone in an organization to be aligned with the real goals of the company, and ensures that everyone is pushing in the same direction.

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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-19% employee growth in 12 months

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

Leadership

Economics at University of Prague. Software Engineer at Allianz, ICZ, TopMonks and Trumaker. Co-founded Productboard in 2014.

MBA Business at UC Berkeley. Head of Product & Marketing at Maestro Market, VP Product Management at GoodData. Co-founded Productboard in 2014.

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