Senior Backend Product Engineer (Kotlin)

The opportunity The way software is built is changing fast. At Productboard, AI-first is not a tagline - it's our daily operating model. Every engineer ships with Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex from day one. PMs and designers prototype alongside you. AI is embedded across the full lifecycle: discovery, implementation, code review, and incident resolution. The skills you'll build here - agent-native design, eval-driven development, AI-ready architecture - are the skills that will define senior engineering for the next decade. We're looking for a Senior Backend Product Engineer to join our Visualization team, working on complex prioritization features that help 6,000+ companies (Salesforce, SAP, Autodesk) make better product decisions. What you'll do Build and own backend systems in Kotlin with React/TypeScript on the frontend Ship real features to production regularly - from concept through implementation Make our codebase AI-ready: clean module boundaries, strong API contracts, semantic context Design agent workflows: multi-step reasoning, tool use, human-gated checkpoints Collaborate closely with PMs and designers - product mindset, not just execution Tech stack Backend: Kotlin, Ruby, TypeScript/Node.js, Kafka Frontend: TypeScript, React.jsStorage: Postgres, Elasticsearch, Redis Infra: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform What we're looking for 5+ years of backend engineering experience Experience with JVM-based languages (Kotlin or Java); eagerness to work in Kotlin Comfort working across the full stack when needed Pragmatic, business-oriented mindset - you ship things that matter Strong communicator who lifts the team around them Benefits 💰 Stock options 🏝️ 5 weeks vacation + 9 sick days 📚 Learning budget (courses, books, conferences) 🏋️ MultiSport card 🥕 Carrot fertility benefits 🧑‍💻 MacBook + 34" monitor ⏰ Flexible hours & home office 🍀 Mental wellness program 🗣️ Language lessons