About Productboard Productboard was founded in 2014 by Hubert Palan and Daniel Hejl with a simple mission: to help companies make products that matter. Today, Productboard is recognized as one of the hottest tech startups, appearing on the Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups list and being named the most valuable startup in the Czech Republic by Forbes Magazine.
About The Role We're hiring a Staff Engineer to own the architectural layer that makes this real, working alongside our engineers, PMs, and designers shipping AI-first product features end-to-end. The shift looks like this:
Leadership reads it and decides. PMs and designers ship to production. Not just specs and Figma. Ship It with AI days. Two days every six weeks. You can name a tradeoff you made between scope and quality and tell us why you made it. You can describe what you've stopped doing because AI made it unnecessary.



You've owned features end-to-end and know what it costs to get something to GA. 6-10+ years of production software engineering experience
~ Strong backend skills in Python, Kotlin, or Java, with experience evolving service-level logic and infrastructure
~ Daily use of AI coding tools as a core part of your workflow — pushing them, refining prompts, knowing where they break Strong fit: Python, Pydantic AI, Braintrust
~ Frontend: TypeScript, React, Relay, GraphQL
~ Backend: Kotlin, Ruby (legacy services we're modernizing), with new services built in Kotlin
~ PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elastic, Redis
~ Data pipeline: Python, Keboola, Looker, Snowflake
~ Infrastructure: AWS, Cloudflare, Kubernetes, Terraform *This job posting exists to fill a vacancy.

📌 Staff Engineer (Madrid)
🏢 Terminal
📍 Madrid