Staff Full Stack Software Engineer, Productboard

Salary not provided

+ Equity

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

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

+ Equity

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

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

  • Proven Engineering Experience:
  • You bring over 5 years of engineering experience, demonstrating a history of developing world-class product experiences within a team
  • Your track record shows significant contributions in engineering roles
  • Pragmatic & Business-Oriented:
  • Your focus is on balancing craft, speed, and business impact
  • You make informed decisions, choosing the right technology based on practical tradeoffs rather than chasing trends
  • Strategic Problem-Solver:
  • You excel at breaking down complex problems into manageable solutions, considering both technical and business implications
  • Your ability to iterate swiftly on new ideas and adjust your approach with emerging information stands out
  • Skilled in Quality User Interface Creation:
  • You excel in collaboratively creating and sustaining user interfaces that captivate a broad audience, leveraging web technologies including HTML, CSS, TypeScript, and React
  • Your expertise includes extensive experience in efficiently scaling UIs to accommodate rapid growth and changing demands
  • Familiar with Scaling Systems:
  • You possess a thorough understanding of how different system components, from the user interface to the data model, work together
  • Your technical skills include working as part of a team to scale and optimize backend systems, adapting effectively to meet increasing user demands
  • Flexible with Technology:
  • Adaptable in learning and using different technologies, you are not bound by any single tool or language
  • You value practicality and efficiency in your technological choices
  • Empathetic Communicator:
  • You articulate complex technical ideas clearly, both in writing and verbally
  • In disagreements, you engage thoughtfully, respecting different viewpoints and finding compromise when necessary
  • Team Player:
  • Collaborative by nature, you work effectively with cross-functional teams
  • Your commitment goes beyond personal achievement, focusing also on the growth and learning of your teammates
  • Focused on Delivery:
  • You prioritize effectively, aligning your work with the team's objectives
  • You are skilled in managing time and resources, you meet deadlines and work within budgets, while adeptly adjusting to project changes as needed
  • User-Centric:
  • You prioritize users, understanding the impact of your work on their lives
  • This awareness drives your project choices, recognizing the responsibility that comes with your role
  • Curious and Quick Learner:
  • You are eager to take on new challenges, unphased by managing multiple projects
  • Your ability to rapidly learn and adapt is essential in our fast-paced environment
  • Startup Mentality:
  • Thriving in the dynamic setting of startup in a changing world, you are self-motivated and action-oriented
  • You balance short-term achievements with the long-term quality standards critical for our success

Desirable

  • Technical Expertise: If you're highly skilled in any areas of our tech stack — React, Node.js, TypeScript, Ruby, Kotlin, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, AWS — your expertise will be highly valued
  • Diverse Interests: We appreciate candidates who have passions beyond technology, whether it's in the arts, history, social sciences, or any other field
  • Infrastructure Skills: 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 making sure our customers really understand what users need
  • As an 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 work with different functions, like product managers and designers, to bring your technical skills and understanding of product development together
  • This role is about making a real difference in how we build products and coming up with practical solutions that matter to our users
  • This role is based in our San Francisco office with an office-centric hybrid schedule
  • Along with most people at Productboard, you’ll work from this office in person on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays every week and have the option to work from home on Wednesdays and Fridays when the context allows for it
  • Develop the Core Product:
  • 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
  • You’ll enjoy the freedom to direct your work and share ownership of the product
  • Develop Across the Entire Tech Stack:
  • Craft robust backend systems using technologies like Ruby and Kotlin, and create intuitive frontends with React and Typescript
  • Your work will bridge server and client sides, making our product more efficient and user-friendly
  • Tackle Complex Challenges:
  • Bring your creativity to resolve challenging technical issues and be involved in every phase of feature development – from concept to implementation and beyond
  • Collaborate Cross-Functionally:
  • Work alongside product managers, designers and other partners
  • Your collaborative efforts will be essential in delivering impactful results and engaging in the dynamic product development process
  • Gain Customer Insight:
  • 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
  • Professional Growth:
  • Experience personal and professional growth through diverse learning and developmental opportunities within the role

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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Top investors

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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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