Principal Engineer - Frontend Architecture

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We’re a B2B SaaS company dedicated to innovation in the field of product management. As an outcome-driven company, we’re seeking the right person to help us define, design, and deliver products based on sound scaled architecture principles and patterns.

Over 5000+ global companies have chosen Productboard, from startups to Fortune 100 enterprises, because we give them a strategic advantage over their competition. Essentially, we enable these companies to create more valuable products for their customers the first time.

As a member of our product architecture team, you’ll guide the design of our products in an organization of empowered, cross-functional teams

On a typical day you will...

• Work with highly motivated technologists – engineers, designers, and product managers

• Define and communicate strategies that enable successful outcomes

• Ensure technical investments are aligned with our vision and strategy

• Coordinate technology across domain groups to improve efficiency

• Propose sequencing and execution plans for key technical initiatives

• Report to senior leadership on significant initiatives and innovations

• Serve as a role model for less senior staff, doubling as a mentor or coach

• Provide insights into the technical feasibility of product strategies

Our tech stack

• Frontend: TypeScript, React.js, Nx (you can read here about how we use it)

• Backend: Kotlin/Spring, Ruby on Rails, Kafka

• Storage: Postgres, Elastic, Redis

• Code Quality: Jest, Cypress.io, ESlint, Prettier, Danger.js

• Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog

About you

• You are competent in modern languages and frameworks – and have experience with React.js using Typescript.

• You have 8+ years of experience in software product architecture, with a focus on front-end web application frameworks and architectures designed to operate at web scale.

• You can demonstrate a solid understanding of cloud deployment technologies and the benefits of headless implementations and BFF patterns.

• You have 5-10 years of design experience with modern front-end web application frameworks and can articulate the benefits and drawbacks of each.

• You have a deep understanding of how to design and build complex front-end web applications that are high-performing and support low latency interactions in a big data environment.

• You have experience building, evolving, maintaining, and operating web applications.

• You can articulate and lead conversations on the benefits and associated trade-offs between front-end design patterns and practices to ensure scale, maintainability, quality, and effective dependency management that ensures development at scale.

• You are a strong mentor to junior staff and able to lead and teach others to ensure technical alignment.

• You possess a solid financial acumen – you should understand the cost trade-offs of various technology decisions.

• You have experience with Relational Databases, while experience with No SQL is a plus.

• You have experience using iterative development fundamentals, including SCRUM, Agile or other iterative approaches.

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 

💚 Shared Headspace account for mindfulness & mental health 

🏋 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

About Productboard

Productboard is a customer-centric product management platform that helps organizations get the right products to market, faster. More than 5,400 companies, including Microsoft, Zoom, 1-800-Contacts, and UiPath, use Productboard to understand what users need, prioritize what to build next, and rally everyone around their roadmap.

With offices in San Francisco, Vancouver, Dublin, Brno and Prague, Productboard is backed by leading investors like Tiger Global Management, Dragoneer Investment Group, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Credo Ventures. 

In January 2022, we closed our $125M Series D round, which put us into the Unicorn category of companies, with a valuation of $1.7B.

• Join at the golden startup age — established stability of a Unicorn with space for individual impact

• You’ll enjoy an exciting team atmosphere, building a whole new category of software

• You can help change the way that products are built all over the world

• We iterate quickly and decisions are fast. You’ll have a voice in what we do and see the impact of your work

• We are backed by top Silicon Valley investors, giving us access to capital, networks, mentors, and new markets

• We are recognized as one of the hottest tech startups on the market today, named by Forbes magazine and Business Insider as one of the best startup employers to bet your career on and are regularly recognized for our company culture

About our culture

Imagine working in a place where everything matters — most importantly, you. At Productboard, values aren’t just something we like to talk about, they’re something we live and breathe. We believe in creating a work environment where:

• People feel empowered, supported, and included

• Trust and transparency are built into the way we work

• Creativity, curiosity, and continuous improvement are encouraged and nurtured every day

Forming our company values was a group effort, with every employee allowed to contribute. From profit-sharing initiatives, like stock options, to open calendars and communication, we don’t waste time on politics or ego. We champion openness by sharing our goals, success, and failures. 

Join colleagues who love what they do and who are invested in their work environment and the future of the company. Help shape our company, culture, and product!

Check out our LinkedIn Life page, Instagram profile, and People of Productboard FB page or listen to our People of Productboard podcast for a real feel of what life is like at Productboard.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and champion equity. It is our aim to help people from all backgrounds, cultures, and groups realize their full potential at Productboard. We do not tolerate any discrimination or harassment based upon gender identity, race, color, religion, age, sexual orientation, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other biascovered by appropriate law. All aspects of employment, including hiring, training, promotion, and terminations, are based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We are committed to an inclusive hiring process and provide all candidates with equal opportunity to demonstrate their abilities. Togetherness is one of our core values, and our Diversity Council helps to ensure that we uphold the values of authenticity, humanity, and diversity to create an environment where every person matters. We are committed to leading by example to drive societal change.