Technical Product Manager — API & Platform Innovator

Next Frontier Capital; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Chase is seeking a Product Manager to lead end-to-end product development, from discovery through launch, ensuring customer value and scalable, reliable experiences. You will drive strategy, backlogs, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver high-quality products that resonate with clients.

As a core leader, you will focus on customer voice, architectural practices, and governance of APIs and data platforms using Java/Spring tech stack.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in product management or a relevant domain area.
• Advanced knowledge of the product development life cycle, design, and data analytics.
• Proven ability to lead product life cycle activities including discovery, ideation, strategic development, requirements definition, and value management.
• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
• 5+ years in technical product management or engineering leadership; prior Java developer experience.
• Hands-on experience with Java 17+, Spring Boot 3.x, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, WebFlux vs. MVC, Resilience4j, Spring Data JPA/R2DBC, Kafka, GraphQL.
• Proven delivery of API/schema governance, versioning/deprecation, and CI policy gates.
• Strong SRE practices: SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, OpenTelemetry.
• Developer productivity: time-to-first-hello-world, framework adoption, migration cycle time.
• Governance: contract test coverage, schema validation pass rate, deprecations completed within SLA.

Responsibilities

• Develops a product strategy and product vision that delivers value to customers.
• Manages discovery efforts and market research to uncover customer solutions and integrate them into the product roadmap.
• Owns, maintains, and develops a product backlog that enables development to support the overall strategic roadmap and value proposition.
• Builds the framework and tracks the product's key success metrics such as cost, feature and functionality, risk posture, and reliability.
• Set and evolve baselines for Spring Boot 3.x, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, WebFlux vs. MVC, GraphQL schema conventions.
• Define and govern REST (OpenAPI-first, contract tests, versioning/deprecation SLAs) and GraphQL (SDL-first, schema registry/checks, persisted queries, deprecation policy).
• Define SLIs/SLOs and enforce error budgets, timeouts, retries with backoff/jitter, circuit breakers, bulkheads.
• Define Security OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, JWT claim standards, resolver-level auth for GraphQL; secrets management integration.
• Prioritize by cost of delay, reliability risk, developer productivity impact, and TCO; document ADRs for major choices.
• Chase is a leading financial services firm delivering comprehensive financial products and services.

Skills

Product management

Data analytics

Product life cycle

Domain experience

Engineering leadership

Java development

API governance

CI policy gates

SRE practices

OpenTelemetry

Framework adoption

Contract tests

Schema validation

Tools

Java 17+

Spring Boot 3.x

Spring Cloud

Spring Security

WebFlux/MVC

Kafka

GraphQL

DataLoader

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Chase is seeking a Product Manager to lead end-to-end product development, from discovery through launch, ensuring customer value and scalable, reliable experiences. You will drive strategy, backlogs, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver high-quality products that resonate with clients.

As a core leader, you will focus on customer voice, architectural practices, and governance of APIs and data platforms using Java/Spring tech stack.