Senior Frontend Engineer, Permissions

Location: Prague 🇨🇿

Join one of our product teams and develop features with real value for a one-of-a-kind product management system used by 5000+ global companies.

We work in small cross-functional teams that usually consist of 5 developers, a designer, and a product manager. You’ll be part of the whole feature development lifecycle, with direct access to a wealth of customer feedback.

We're scaling our engineering and our product to take on more complex customer challenges. You will have the chance to drive some of the big decisions and foundational platforms that help our whole engineering organization accomplish that while remaining as fast, agile, and reliable as ever.

Our Tech Stack

You’ll work with the following frameworks, tools, and languages:

• Frontend: TypeScript, React.js
• Backend: TypeScript/Node.js, Ruby, Kotlin, Kafka, GraphQL
• Storage: Postgres, Elastic, Redis
• Data Pipeline: Python, Keboola, Looker, Snowflake
• Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Full Tech Stack

About you

We’re looking for someone with the following skills and qualities:

• 5+ years of experience building web apps
• Experience with single-page applications built with TypeScript and React required.
• Experience with our favorite approaches and frameworks preferred (TypeScript, React, Continuous and Progressive Delivery with Feature Flags)
• You have a track record of taking ownership for public-facing features through the entire discovery, design, and delivery process, coordinating the successful outcome for your team under the guidance of your manager
• DevX experience is a plus – building solutions that will boost the experience and performance of other engineers
• AuthN/AuthZ experience is a plus but not a requirement
• You've worked on teams where you've owned and operated your own services, and you've had direct responsibility for some or all of
  • Production Debugging and Incident Resolution
  • CI/Deployment pipelines
  • Progressive Delivery with Feature Flags
  • Tooling and Developer Experience
  • Automated Testing
  • Analytics
• A solid understanding of functional programming principles
• Confident designing frontend architecture and passionate about performance
• Experience mentoring and helping teammates, doing code reviews and pair-programming
• The initiative to fix something that's broken, rather than waiting for someone else to do it
• Comfortable fluently discussing related topics in English within distributed teams.

About Permissions team and your role

• You will implement advanced Authorization features from the frontend side, including ReBAC and attribute-level access.
• Our approach to Authorization is highly detailed, comparable to the most granular SaaS solutions.
• We leverage the OSO Cloud framework to manage and scale Authorization.
• We deliver Authorization as a Service to other teams, so you’ll need to abstract the complexity of permissions effectively.
• You can expect extensive cross-team collaboration, as Authorization impacts multiple components across the product.
• You’ll gain deeper frontend platform knowledge, positioning you as a valuable member of the internal frontend guild and creating opportunities to advance to Staff Engineer.

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
• Carrot Fertility Benefits
• Free snacks, drinks, and yummy catered lunches
• MultiSport card to access sports facilities
• Flexible working hours and home office
• Parental benefits
• Language lessons
• Mental Wellness Program to support your well-being and self-care

About Productboard

Productboard exists to help the best product minds out there make products that matter, together. We believe we all deserve to live in a world filled with extraordinary products - products that exceed our expectations in both functionality and delight.

That is why we made our purpose-built and customer-centric product management platform that helps organizations get the right products to market, faster. More than 6,000 companies, including Microsoft, Zoom, Salesforce, and Cartier, use Productboard to understand what users need, prioritize what to build next, and rally everyone around their roadmap.

With offices in San Francisco, Prague, Vancouver, London, Dublin, and Brno, 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.

We are very well funded and financially stable Series D company, with a validated product market fit and a massive future market opportunity.

• Join at the golden startup age — established stability with large space for innovation and 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 a leading tech startup in our category, 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 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!

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 bias covered 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.

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