Staff Product Engineer
Leads technical direction for Solidroad’s Dublin engineering hub while building full-stack AI products, owning critical systems, mentoring engineers, and working directly with EMEA customers. The role requires at least four years of engineering experience and strong technical leadership across modern web technologies, product architecture, or AI integrations.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead technical direction in Dublin, setting architecture, reliability, performance, and quality standards.
- Make technical trade-offs explicit and maintain high engineering standards.
- Build and mentor a small team by hiring engineers, developing their skills, and fostering a high-trust, high-feedback culture.
- Work directly with EMEA customers to translate complex problems into shippable work and measure outcomes.
- Own critical systems end-to-end, including:
- Data and retrieval pipelines processing thousands of conversations per day across Zendesk, Intercom, and Salesforce.
- LLM evaluation and generation flows, including prompting, retrieval, safety and guardrails, evaluations, and observability.
- Real-time scoring, analytics, and coaching loops that drive measurable customer experience improvements.
- Fast, resilient user interfaces using Next.js and React.
- Partner with teams in San Francisco and Dublin across product, design, and go-to-market.
- Ship meaningful products, enable go-to-market teams, run customer demos, troubleshoot customer issues, and inform strategic investments.
- Lead a small Dublin pod, mentor engineers, contribute to customer revenue growth, and provide roadmap input.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of engineering experience, ideally at a Series A to C startup shipping complex, customer-facing products.
- Strong technical leadership, including mentoring engineers, leading technical decisions, or architecting significant product areas.
- Deep expertise in modern web technologies, product architecture, or AI integrations.
- Ability to work quickly, navigate ambiguity, and tackle challenging problems independently.
- Willingness to work closely with customers and collaborate in an office environment.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with challenging or notable technical projects.
- Experience integrating AI or large language models into products.
- A portfolio, GitHub profile, or personal project demonstrating work you are proud of.
Compensation and Benefits
- Full-time role based in the Dublin office.
- Close collaboration with experienced founders and significant ownership over technical and product direction.
- Supportive, mature, and collaborative team culture.
- Opportunities to mentor teammates, work directly with customers, and shape a growing EMEA engineering hub.
Skills
Next.js, React, Ai Integrations, LLMs, Prompting, Information Retrieval, Llm Evaluation, Observability, Zendesk, Intercom, Salesforce, Data Pipelines, Analytics, Architecture, Performance Engineering
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