Technical Product Manager - RAILS
jobgether
UK
Full-time
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Accountabilities
- Own the end-to-end product strategy, roadmap, and execution for the core transaction platform, ensuring alignment between business objectives, technical capabilities, and customer needs.
- Act as the accountable product leader for multiple interconnected domains, including payment connectivity, orchestration, transaction processing, money operations, and risk infrastructure.
- Lead cross-functional engineering teams and autonomous product pods, creating alignment across complex technical initiatives and eliminating organizational silos.
- Define platform capabilities that improve payment execution, scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
- Drive the development of intelligent payment workflows, including provider integrations, routing strategies, retries, failover mechanisms, and configurable transaction rules.
- Optimize transaction lifecycle management, including authorization, capture, refunds, chargebacks, settlement, reconciliation, and financial accuracy.
- Partner with engineering leaders to establish resilient architectures, observability practices, automation standards, and production ownership principles.
- Champion a “You Build It, You Run It” culture by ensuring teams take full ownership of solutions from design through production operations.
- Maintain a strong focus on platform stability, quality assurance, and operational excellence by implementing proactive reliability practices.
- Translate complex technical challenges into structured product decisions using data-driven prioritization frameworks such as RICE.
- Communicate technical trade-offs and strategic recommendations to executive stakeholders while balancing innovation, scalability, and business outcomes.
Requirements
- Strong technical background with deep understanding of cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, APIs, event-driven platforms, and modern software engineering practices.
- Experience working with technologies and concepts such as cloud platforms, serverless architectures, Kotlin, Go, gRPC, REST APIs, and scalable backend systems.
- Proven experience building platform products, foundational infrastructure, or complex distributed systems across multiple interconnected domains.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical product initiatives with significant engineering complexity and multiple dependencies.
- Strong execution skills with experience improving delivery velocity, managing cross-team dependencies, and optimizing engineering performance metrics.
- Product leadership experience with a “maker” mindset, prioritizing scalable, modular architectures over short-term solutions.
- Ability to understand and communicate technical trade-offs, including decisions involving technical debt, feature velocity, cost optimization, and business growth.
- Experience defining product strategies that connect technical capabilities with measurable commercial outcomes.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with engineering teams, technical leadership, and business stakeholders.
- Familiarity with payment infrastructure, including payment provider integrations, smart routing, transaction state machines, settlement processes, reconciliation, PCI environments, fraud prevention, or secure payment storage is highly desirable.
- Experience working in high-scale technology environments where reliability, security, and operational excellence are critical.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package.
- Fully remote work opportunity with the flexibility to work from anywhere.
- Home office allowance to support the creation of an effective remote workspace.
- Company-provided work equipment.
- Stock options.
- Health insurance coverage regardless of location.
- Flexible days off and autonomy in managing your schedule.
- Opportunity to work on globally impactful financial infrastructure and advanced payment technology.
- Exposure to complex technical challenges involving distributed systems, AI-driven commerce, and large-scale platforms.
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