Technical Product Owner (f/m/d) – Software & Full Stack Applications

Instaffo; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

smartclip is the adtech development unit of RTL Group, delivering innovative ad experiences across screens and devices. We seek a technically minded professional who can translate business needs into actionable technical requirements and drive features from idea to production within a UI engineering team.

You will collaborate with developers and business stakeholders, perform testing, validate data, and contribute to quality, monitoring and performance initiatives in a dynamic, Agile environment.

Qualifikationen

• Translate business requirements into clear technical requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Understand full-stack interactions between UI, API, frontend, backend and databases.
• Perform acceptance and smoke testing and validate data across APIs.
• Organise work within the team and push features from idea to production.
• Assess feature readiness, quality, performance, monitoring and risk.

Aufgaben

• Bridge Business & Engineering: Translate business requirements into clear technical requirements, user stories, tickets and acceptance criteria that developers can actually work with.
• Understand the System: Build a solid understanding of how UI, frontend, backend, APIs and databases interact across our full-stack applications.
• Test & Investigate: Perform acceptance and smoke testing, work with APIs and validate data to systematically investigate whether something works as intended.
• Drive Delivery: Organise and orchestrate work within the team, keep dependencies and open questions moving, and take features from idea to production.
• Own Quality: Help decide whether a feature is ready to go live and develop a strong sense for quality, performance, monitoring and potential risks.

Kenntnisse

Technical Product Thinking

Hands-on Tech Know-how

Software Development Basics

Structured & Precise

Curious & Collaborative

Tools

Postman

Swagger/OpenAPI

Jira

Grafana

Prometheus

AWS

Jobbeschreibung

Requirements

Please note that this position requires work authorization for Germany.

Language

English - Fluent (C1), German - Fluent (C1)

Your Skills

Core Competencies:

• Technical Product Thinking: You can break down complex business requirements into clear, structured and testable work and know how to define meaningful acceptance criteria.
• Hands-on Technical Know-how: You have practical experience with APIs, testing and data validation and understand how frontend, backend and databases work together.
• Software Development Basics: You understand the fundamentals of Git and modern development workflows, including branches, commits, pull requests and merges.
• Structured & Precise: You work carefully, pay attention to detail and create tickets and documentation that are clear, concise and easy to understand.
• Curious & Collaborative: You ask questions, absorb new technical concepts quickly and communicate openly and directly with developers and business stakeholders at eye level.

Bonus Skills (The Power-Ups):

• Experience with tools such as Postman, Swagger/OpenAPI, Jira or comparable platforms.
• Background in QA, software testing, technical business analysis or software development.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus or similar.
• Experience working with cloud environments such as AWS.
• Experience working in an agile software development environment.

Activities

You will:

• Bridge Business & Engineering: Translate business requirements into clear technical requirements, user stories, tickets and acceptance criteria that developers can actually work with.
• Understand the System: Build a solid understanding of how UI, frontend, backend, APIs and databases interact across our full-stack applications.
• Test & Investigate: Perform acceptance and smoke testing, work with APIs and validate data to systematically investigate whether something works as intended.
• Drive Delivery: Organise and orchestrate work within the team, keep dependencies and open questions moving, and take features from idea to production.
• Own Quality: Help decide whether a feature is ready to go live and develop a strong sense for quality, performance, monitoring and potential risks.

Team

You’ll join our UI Engineering team and take ownership of full-stack projects that power our adtech ecosystem.

About The Company

About smartclip

smartclip is the adtech development unit of RTL Group - Europe’s leading free-to-air broadcaster group. Our proprietary advertising technology is custom-built for the needs of European broadcasters and publishers - enabling media owners to implement smarter monetisation strategies. We are committed to delivering the most innovative ad experiences spanning in-stream, out-stream, addressable TV, connected TV, audio, and gaming - ultimately empowering brands with true cross-screen storytelling opportunities on all devices.

For more information: Please visit www.smartclip.tv and follow us on LinkedIn.