Staff Product Engineer

• End-to-End Ownership: Own the end-to-end delivery of complex traditional full-stack features and multi-agent AI workflows. Make high-level architectural decisions that balance speed, scalability, and maintainability, building reusable, user-friendly full-stack components (including conversational and chat-based UI/UX) using Vue.js, Node.js, and MongoDB.
• Security & Data Integrity: Architect secure data pipelines and robust access management systems to safely handle sensitive employee and company data across our interconnected toolstack.
• Data-Driven Iteration: Analyze agent performance analytics, workforce insights, and process outcomes to refine features iteratively, ensuring our proactive triggers and nudges provide genuine business ROI.
• Engineering Excellence & Mentorship: Ensure high-quality, reliable releases by contributing to robust testing, monitoring, and code review processes, while pioneering dedicated AI evaluation suites (evals), strict schemas for tool calling, and "human-in-the-loop" safety fallbacks. Drive organizational learning by providing mentorship and codifying standard engineering and AI patterns into the codebase., * Frontend: Vue.js, TailwindCSS, and a modern design system for a consistent, intuitive user experience
• Backend: Node.js (TypeScript) with Express, MongoDB, and NATS, built for scalability and modularity
• AI/LLMs: State-of-the-art models (e.g., from OpenAI, Anthropic) and frameworks like LangChain and LangGraph for stateful agent orchestration; implementation of advanced RAG architectures, vector databases, and observability tools (e.g., LangSmith)
• AI Developer Tooling: Extensive use of AI tools such as Cursor, CodeRabbit, and Deep Research to accelerate learning, automate repetitive tasks, and rapidly prototype and iterate on solutions
• Infrastructure & Testing: Docker and AWS; automated testing using Playwright, Vitest, Mocha/Chai, alongside dedicated AI evaluation frameworks (LLM-as-a-judge)
• Analytics & Collaboration: Mixpanel, Sentry, Datadog, GitHub, Notion, and async communication tools for transparent teamwork

• Product Mindset: You share our belief that engineering is a product-focused discipline, and you're passionate about solving user problems with impactful, scalable solutions.
• Proven Leadership: You have significant experience leading end-to-end product development, previously operating as a tech lead, founding engineer, or senior IC at a high-growth company.
• Technical Anchor: You have a track record of making architectural decisions that shape product outcomes and establish engineering systems where your contributions make future work easier for the whole team.
• Strategic Peer: You are comfortable pushing back on product specs when technical constraints or user experience concerns warrant it.

Full-Stack & Systems Expertise

• Modern Stack Mastery: You operate confidently as a full-stack engineer with deep expertise in modern web frameworks (e.g., Vue.js, React) and backend technologies (Node.js, MongoDB).
• Secure Architecture: You understand how to build secure access management for enterprise data.
• Modular Design: You have experience with design systems and building user-friendly, modular components.

AI-Native Development

• Production AI Experience: You have proven, hands-on experience building and shipping both standard web applications and LLM-powered applications (multi-agent orchestration, RAG pipelines) to production.
• AI Productivity: You have established experience utilizing modern AI coding assistants (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) and AI-driven code review tools (e.g., CodeRabbit) as a core force multiplier in your daily software development lifecycle.

• Impact: Become part of a fast-growing scale-up taking over the People Performance & Enablement space by making work fulfilling for more than two million people by 2025
• Teammates: Join a diverse and international team of talented, smart, and kind people
• Feedback and recognition: We value feedback exchange and celebrating successes - big and small
• Hybrid model: We encourage you to spend 2 days per week in our Berlin office (Tuesdays and Thursdays are our sponsored lunch days, where lunch is provided by Leapsome).
• Flexible work: Experience a work-life balance with flexible hours and the option of working elsewhere for up to 2 months per year
• Learning and Development: Develop your skills with a yearly development budget of €2,000 and access to Good Habitz platform
• Vacation: Take 30 vacation days every year plus public holidays (or upgrade to 40 vacation days at adjusted pay) & benefit from a month-long paid sabbatical after 5 years with Leapsome
• Health & Wellness: Stay active and healthy with a free Urban Sports Club membership and Oliva subscription
• Mental health: Access to 1:1 therapy sessions via our mental health partner, plus company workshops and learning pathways on topics like mindfulness and digital wellness
• Corporate Benefits: Get exclusive discounts and deals from our partners.
• Work-from-home stipend: Receive a one-time work-from-home stipend of €1,000
• Monthly team activities: Have fun at monthly team activities like kayaking, laser tag, and game nights
• Competitive pay and pre-IPO equity package

This role is based in Berlin and the salary range for this position is dependent on the level in which we recruit this role:

Senior: €110,000 - €130,000 + Bonus + Equity. Lead: €130,000 - €165,000 + Bonus + Equity.

View our full compensation framework here.

Leapsome aims to pay generously and fairly. If the listed range isn't working for your situation, please tell us early in the process, we'd rather have that conversation than lose a great candidate over a number we may be able to address.

If your role or skillset isn't covered in our compensation framework, it's likely because we haven't hired enough in that area yet. We'll build a data-backed range before we make you an offer, and we'll share our thinking with you as early as we can.

This note is published for transparency. It reflects our compensation philosophy as of June 2026 and describes our general global approach - it is not a contract, offer, or entitlement to any salary, increase, or bonus, and may change at any time. Individual compensation is always governed solely by your written employment agreement and applicable local law.

Leapsome's values

We stay true to our values in everything we do at Leapsome.

• Impact is everything - We aim high, focus on the outcomes that matter and say no to the rest.
• Speed is our advantage - We move fast with intent - simplifying, automating, and learning as we go.
• Owners without egos - We trust owners and expect excellence in return. We take responsibility individually, support each other, and win as a team.
• Candid is kind - We speak up early and respectfully. We assume good intent, stay curious, and care about each other's growth.

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We look forward to getting to know you!

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Leapsome is the platform for Performance Management & Employee Engagement. CEOs and HR / People Operations teams in forward-thinking companies including Spotify, Mercedes-Benz, and Babbel choose Leapsome to enhance their people management processes and help them develop, empower and enable employees. Leapsome combines tools for Goals & OKRs Management, Performance Reviews and 360s, Employee Engagement Surveys, Feedback & Praise, and 1-on-1 Meetings into one easy to use platform. Leapsome was founded in 2016 by Jenny von Podewils and Kajetan von Armansperg in Berlin and in 2018 was listed as one of the 100 most innovative startups of Germany by The Hundert.

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Leapsome’s values
We stay true to our values in everything we do at Leapsome. 

• Listen & learn — We always seek understanding. It helps us grow together and learn from each other.
• Challenge the status quo — We challenge ourselves and don’t walk the beaten path just because everyone else does.
• Be honest & transparent — We are honest and transparent with each other and ourselves.
• Seek impact — We hold ourselves accountable for the impact we want to have in this world.
• Take ownership & pursue excellence — We’re a group of smart and dedicated people, we trust each other to truly own our work.
• Be kind & humble — We are more than just colleagues — we genuinely care for each other.