Staff Product Engineer
Location: Dublin – onsite
Salary: Up to €170,000
Contract: Permanent
Build AI that makes customer experience feel human again
Building something truly great doesn’t feel like just another job.
It feels like momentum. Like obsession. Like you’re shaping something people will talk about.
This is one of those opportunities.
We’re partnering with a well-funded, fast-scaling AI startup tackling a deceptively difficult question:
How do you scale customer support without losing the human element?
Empathy. Judgement. Real connection.
They’re building entirely new systems powered by AI, real-time simulation and generative technology and they need a Staff Product Engineer in Dublin to help lead the charge across EMEA.
This isn’t a “work through tickets in the background” kind of role.
You’ll sit directly with customers, understand the reality of their problems and turn that complexity into elegant product solutions. You’ll ship features that immediately influence customer experience and revenue while operating as a technical leader, product thinker and hands-on engineer.
If you’ve ever wanted to work at the intersection of engineering, product and customer reality, this is it.
What You’ll Do
Provide Technical Leadership Across EMEA
- Set the direction for architecture, reliability and performance
- Make difficult technical trade-offs and take ownership of the outcomes
- Raise the engineering bar across the Dublin team
- Help shape the technical and product direction of the EMEA operation
- Work directly with EMEA customers to understand their challenges
- Translate messy, real-world problems into clear and shippable solutions
- Use customer behaviour, product usage and performance metrics to guide decisions
- Balance immediate customer needs with long-term product scalability
- Build data pipelines that ingest thousands of customer-experience conversations from platforms such as Zendesk, Intercom and Salesforce
- Develop LLM-powered systems spanning prompting, evaluations, retrieval, safety and observability
- Create real-time scoring and analytics loops that drive measurable improvements
- Build modern React and Next.js interfaces that simplify complex AI workflows
- Own systems from initial architecture through to deployment, monitoring and iteration
Influence Across the Business
- Work closely with Product, Design and GTM teams across Dublin and San Francisco
- Bring engineering, customer and commercial perspectives together
- Drive decisions and take responsibility for turning them into results
What We’re Looking For
- Proven capability at Staff Engineer level, or a strong Senior Engineer ready to step up
- Experience working in a startup or similarly fast-moving product environment
- Strong technical leadership across architecture, mentoring and decision-making
- A track record of building and shipping customer-facing products end to end
- Experience working directly with customers to understand and solve complex problems
- Someone comfortable taking ownership of ambiguous challenges without waiting for a detailed specification
You should have strong experience across:
- Modern web technologies, including React, Next.js and APIs
- Scalable backend services, microservices and data pipelines
- Architecture, performance, reliability and production ownership
- AI or LLM integrations would be a strong advantage, but are not essential
This role is best suited to someone who enjoys being close to customers and wants to understand the real-world impact of what they build.