Staff Product Engineer

An international product SaaS company building a platform for accounting and financial firms. All engineering is in-house, the team is fully remote and spread across dozens of countries. The company is looking for a Staff Product Engineer to own an entire product domain. This is an individual contributor role with no direct reports, but with company-level accountability for the technical direction of the domain. At its core it is a backend role where you also help shape the product. What you'll do: • Own the architecture and technical direction of your domain, with decisions judged on a horizon of years, not sprints • Partner with the PM from discovery, before a finished spec exists • Be accountable for outcomes: that features ship, work, and hold up under load • Break work into independently shippable stages and bring in the engineers each stage needs • Design the APIs and interfaces of your domain and agree on integrations with neighboring teams • Raise the bar for engineers around you through design reviews, pairing, and direct feedback • Own the speed of the loop from idea to real users and back, using AI where it genuinely helps Key requirements: • 8+ years in software development, including 3+ years owning a production system with real users and a real cost of error • Experience changing the data model of a live system under load (migration path, risks, point of no return) • You have operated what you built: been on call and made structural changes after incidents • Deep backend experience, cloud-native, distributed systems in production (consistency, idempotency, partial failures) • Multi-tenant SaaS: tenant isolation, long-running workflow state, data integrity • DDD applied on a real codebase • Experience leading work with stakeholders and product. An architect role without delivery responsibility is not a fit • Good judgment on where AI helps and where to rely on your own reasoning • Fluent English. The engineering team is currently Russian-speaking, but the company is open to expanding it Nice to have: Ownership of a domain maintained by several teams, AWS at scale, Rails or Python, React/TypeScript, experience making coding agents effective on production codebases Benefits & conditions: • Fully remote (excluding Russia and Belarus) • B2B contract, paid in USD, to an individual or business account, or in crypto • 30 days of paid vacation per year, paid sick leave • Learning budget and English lessons reimbursement • Co-working and wellness reimbursement • Company-provided equipment and subscriptions to the AI tools you use • Performance-based incentive plan • Team offsites and meetups