Senior Staff Product Engineer (Frontend)

This role is primarily based in our Prague or Brno office with an office-centric hybrid schedule.
We’re hiring a Senior Staff Engineer (L5) with deep frontend expertise who can architect the future of our product experience and frontend platform. This person operates at the intersection of multi-year business strategy and technical execution, shaping the frontend architecture and platform capabilities that enable Productboard to scale. They are a multiplier of Staff Engineers, a trusted partner to senior leadership, and a pragmatic technical leader who creates clarity, reduces complexity, and drives cross-team leverage through high-impact technical strategy.

On a typical day, you will…

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you’ll operate at the intersection of long-term product strategy and technical reality, using your frontend expertise to shape how we build and evolve Productboard at scale. A “day” might look like:

• Translate strategy into architecture. Partner with Staff Engineers and Engineering and Product Leaders to turn multi-year goals into a clear technical roadmap — especially where the frontend architecture is a key constraint or differentiator.
• Design the future of our frontend platform. Architect and evolve our core frontend systems: UI infrastructure, design system and component ecosystem, state/data patterns, performance and observability strategy, and developer workflows.
• Create leverage across teams. Build reusable patterns, libraries, and platform capabilities that enable dozens of engineers to ship safely and quickly — raising the baseline for quality, usability, and iteration speed.
• Lead decisions through clarity. Write and evangelize crisp RFCs / ADRs and technical narratives that make trade-offs clear, align stakeholders quickly, and reduce ambiguity across teams.
• Guide high-stakes execution. Step into the most critical and complex cross-team initiatives — shaping direction, unblocking progress, and ensuring solutions remain pragmatic and durable.
• Drive modernization of legacy constraints. Lead the technical evolution away from painful legacy frontend systems (e.g., fragmented patterns, scaling bottlenecks, brittle UI foundations), building buy-in and staging the migration so value continues flowing.
• Multiply Staff Engineers. Mentor and grow L4 engineers — not just with feedback, but by delegating strategic scope, shaping their thinking, and helping them become leaders of major technical domains.
• Champion customer value. Stay grounded in the user experience: ensure frontend architecture choices increase product velocity and elevate usability, reliability, performance, and craft.

About you

We’re looking for a Senior Staff Engineer who pairs deep frontend mastery with strategic technical leadership — someone who can define long-term direction and enable teams to execute effectively today.

You are a strong match if you:

• Think in systems and horizons. You naturally operate in a 1–3 year horizon, spotting strategic risks and opportunities and shaping a roadmap that makes the company’s biggest bets technically possible.
• Have exceptional frontend technical depth. You bring expert-level understanding of modern frontend architecture and platform design — from performance and rendering strategies, to state management, modularity, design systems, dependency boundaries, and build tooling.
• Create leverage, not dependency. Your instinct is to make others faster and more successful through patterns, tooling, and shared platforms — not by becoming a bottleneck.
• Communicate with radical clarity. You can translate complex engineering trade-offs into narratives leaders can act on, and can write short, high-leverage docs that drive alignment quickly.
• Make pragmatic trade-offs. You’re opinionated, but not dogmatic. You seek the simplest path to meaningful value, and you know when to build durable foundations vs. when to iterate and learn.
• Own outcomes. You don’t just “deliver a solution” — you take responsibility for the real-world impact of your decisions across product metrics, team velocity, and system health.
• Raise the bar through craft. You care deeply about quality, usability, and maintainability, and you lead by example — shaping engineering practices and standards across teams.
• Multiply other technical leaders. You have experience mentoring Staff Engineers and helping them grow their influence, scope, and judgment.

Bonus points if you:

• Have led a design system / component platform