Staff Backend DevX Engineer

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AI Is How We WorkProductboard is an AI-first company. Not as a tagline — but as a daily reality.Everyone here, from Design and Product to Engineering and our CEO, uses AI every day to prototype, explore ideas, and ship faster. We are investing deeply to make AI part of our foundation.What that looks like:

Access from day one. Every engineer and leader gets the best tools available — Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, and more.
AI Champions across teams. Dedicated experts embedded in teams to pair, unblock, and help you move faster with AI agents.
A codebase built for agents. Structured AGENTS.md files, curated skills, and clean patterns so AI agents can work effectively alongside engineers.
Serious investment in DevX. We continuously improve our developer tooling so testing, prototyping, and working with agents is seamless.
Dedicated AI days. Every six weeks, Engineering, Product, and Design teams get focused time to ship real features using AI tools and push boundaries.

AI isn’t something we experiment with occasionally. It’s how we build.The opportunityThe way software is built is changing, and fast! Engineers who embrace AI-native workflows today will define the next decade of product development. Those who don’t? They will be explaining what they used to do.At Productboard, this transformation to being AI native is not a side project; it is our entire focus. AI first is our operating model, and this is how we work. We are building an AI-first Product Engineering organization where learning velocity matters as much as shipping. Our northstar: turn ideas into validated learning twice as fast. More experiments. Tighter feedback loops. Better outcomes.We are looking for a Staff Backend DevX Engineer who wants to be at the center of this transformation, not watching it happen from the outside. The Developer Experience team’s mission is to boost engineering velocity and developer happiness by creating simple, powerful tooling and paved paths. We treat DevX like a product: we listen to feedback, measure outcomes, and focus on the highest-impact work so teams can ship faster with less friction and more confidence. Join us, and help shape the future of AI-powered product development.Why this matters for your careerThe gap between engineers who are building with AI daily and those who are still watching is widening fast. At Productboard, you won't just use AI tools. You will shape the architecture that makes AI agents effective, define the workflows that make them reliable, and build the evaluation systems that make them trustworthy. You will work in an environment where AI first is not a future aspiration. It is the current standard.The skills you build here, agent native design, multi-model orchestration, eval-driven development, AI-ready codebase architecture, are the skills that will define senior engineering for the next decade.AI is how we buildThis is not a tagline. It is our daily operating model across Engineering, Product, and Design. PMs and designers don't just spec features here. They prototype with AI tools and ship to production alongside engineers.AI is embedded across the full lifecycle: technical discoveries, spec writing, design exploration, implementation, test generation, code review, CI/CD, and incident resolution. Human judgment stays in control. People own product intent and quality decisions, with strong review practices and guardrails that keep shipping safe.What we are building underneath:

Agent native architecture standards: clear API contracts, semantic naming, and well-defined module boundaries that keep AI effective as systems grow
A context infrastructure layer with repo versioned guidance that AI tools automatically load, improving the output of Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex simultaneously
AI agent workflows for on-call and incident resolution: triage alerts, pull logs, surface relevant history, and suggest remediation
Systematic optimization of AI code review to catch correctness, security, and maintainability issues earlier

What you will do

Build and evolve Kotlin services and frameworks that streamline the inner loop (APIs, build/test tooling, automation, paved paths).
Maintain and improve our internal developer tool written in Golang
Accelerate CI/CD: improve caching/parallelism, increase test reliability, and shorten feedback cycles.
Partner across teams to standardise workflows, enable self-serve integrations, and reduce cross-team friction.
Instrument and improve: define DX metrics (lead time, build time, flakiness), run experiments, and iterate based on data.
Improve reliability and safety with sensible defaults—observability, guardrails, and secure-by-default patterns.
Make our codebase AI-ready: define clear module boundaries, improve API contracts, add semantic context, and build the structured documentation that makes AI agents more effective across every repo
Design and implement agent workflows that go beyond chat: multi-step reasoning, tool use, autonomous task execution, and human-gated checkpoints
Run experiments, validate with real users, and iterate based on evidence. We measure learning velocity, not just output
Collaborate closely with product managers and designers to shape what we build, not just how we build it. We expect a product mindset, not just technical execution
Act as a knowledge multiplier, sharing what you learn across and beyond your team to raise the bar for everyone

About you

Experience with Kotlin/Java in production (JVM performance, testing, dependency management).
Solid grasp of cloud-native engineering (containers, Kubernetes; AWS/IaC a plus).
Pragmatic approach to developer platforms, internal tooling, and CI/CD at scale.
Nice to have: exposure to Go and interest in multi-language ecosystems.
Previous experience with working on developer or internal tooling
Contributing to open source
Strong communication skills and collaborative mindset
Curiosity, adaptability, and a proactive, startup-friendly attitude
Bring product thinking to engineering work. You can articulate why something matters for users, not just how it works technically
Embrace AI as a daily tool in your own workflow. You use AI coding assistants, iterate on prompts, and constantly look for ways to move faster
Are curious about what agent native architecture looks like: how to structure codebases, APIs, and documentation so AI agents can operate effectively at scale
Have 5+ years of professional engineering experience

Our tech stack

Python for ML code
Celery and Kubernetes for pipeline orchestration
AWS, Docker, Helm, Kafka, Git, and CI/CD for real time services
LangGraph for agent orchestration, Braintrust for observability and evaluation
GraphQL, Postgres, Datadog, Sentry, and Looker
Business tools: Slack, Jira, Google suite, Zoom, Notion

You Can Look Forward to the Following Benefits💰 Stock options💻 MacBook + 34″ monitor📚 Budget for online courses, books, and conferences🏝 5 weeks of vacation + sick days❤️ 1 Volunteer Day per year for you to help causes close to your heart🍲 Free snacks, drinks, and yummy catered lunches every day🏋 MultiSport card to access sports facilities🍹 Team events, such as happy hours, off-sites, and retreats⏱ Flexible working hours and home office🧒🏻 Parental benefits🎓 Language lessons🍀 Mental Wellness Program to support your well-being and self-care📖 – Live, interactive learning programs for managers, leaders, and teamRelocation OpportunitiesIf joining us means making a move, we’re here to help make that transition easier.Candidates must have the legal right to work in the EU. While we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role, we’re happy to support relocation to Prague for candidates already authorized to work in the EU.Relocation SupportWe offer a one-time relocation bonus ranging from $6,000 to $13,000 USD, depending on your personal situation, whether you’re moving on your own or with a partner or family.This bonus is intended to help offset moving expenses and support your transition into your new city. While it may not cover every cost, it provides meaningful financial support as you get settled.If you’re thinking about relocating and want to explore what this could look like for you, we’d be happy to have that conversation.

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