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Technical Product Manager - RAILS
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Job Opportunity: Technical Product Manager - RAILS
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Technical Product Manager - RAILS based in United Kingdom.
About the Role
As a Technical Product Manager, you will lead the strategy, execution, and operational excellence of a critical transaction infrastructure platform powering global commerce. You will act as the single-threaded product leader responsible for the complete payment lifecycle, from connectivity and orchestration to settlement, risk, and security. Working at the intersection of engineering, product strategy, and business impact, you will define scalable solutions for complex distributed systems. This role requires a strong technical mindset, ownership mentality, and the ability to guide autonomous engineering teams toward building reliable, enterprise-grade platforms. You will influence the future of financial infrastructure by enabling seamless, secure, and intelligent payment experiences worldwide.
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.
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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.
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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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We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
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