Principal Engineer - Frontend Architecture

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