Technical Product Owner - Payments

ZipStaff Inc.; Grand Rapids (MI); Remoto; USD 96.000 - 152.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) + 401(k) matching

Paid time off

Referral Program

Descrizione del lavoro

ZipStaff Inc. is seeking a Technical Product Owner for the payments team on a remote U.S. contract basis.

You will own backlog clarity, acceptance criteria, and delivery decisions for services in tender, authorization, capture, and settlement flows across digital orders, including government benefits and digital wallets. You will collaborate with engineers and architects, translating business requirements into actionable stories and testable criteria.

Competenze

• 5+ years as Technical Product Owner on a software delivery team using Agile/SAFe.
• Clear, testable acceptance criteria and properly sized stories.
• Comfortable discussing APIs, data flows, and system integrations with engineers.
• Owned backlog for a service with real production usage.
• Strong written and verbal communication with engineering and compliance stakeholders.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Mansioni

• Translate business and compliance needs into features, stories, and testable acceptance criteria for payment and tender flows.
• Own backlog order, readiness, and priority calls to keep delivery moving.
• Build understanding of payment pipeline to inform tradeoffs with engineering.
• Partner with engineers and architects on discovery without dictating implementation.
• Validate delivered work against acceptance criteria and test across tender types.
• Own release readiness for payment changes including shipping, monitoring, rollback, and go-live communication.
• Support production issue triage with engineering.
• Participate in SAFe Agile ceremonies.

Conoscenze

Backlog management

Communication skills

APIs & data flows

Strumenti

SAFe

Descrizione del lavoro

Job Title: Technical Product Owner – Payments
Location: Remote (U.S.)
Employment Type: Contract (W2 through ZipStaff - No C2C or 1099)

About the Opportunity

ZipStaff is seeking a Technical Product Owner for the payments team at a major retail organization.

You will own backlog clarity, acceptance criteria, and delivery decisions for one or more services in the tender, authorization, capture, and settlement flow for digital orders - credit, mobile wallets, and government benefit tenders (SNAP, WIC). You will work with engineers and architects already on the team. This is a technical delivery seat, not a business analyst role and not a project coordinator role.

What You’ll Do

• Translate business and compliance needs into features, stories, and testable acceptance criteria for payment and tender flows.
• Own backlog order, readiness, and priority calls so delivery keeps moving.
• Build enough understanding of the payment pipeline - tender selection, authorization and capture, tokenization, partial and split capture, government benefit handling - to make tradeoffs with engineering.
• Partner with engineers and architects on discovery without dictating implementation.
• Validate delivered work against acceptance criteria, including testing across tender types.
• Own release readiness for payment changes: what is shipping, monitoring and rollback, and go-live communication.
• Support production issue triage with engineering.
• Work in the team’s SAFe Agile ceremonies.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years as a Technical Product Owner or Product Owner on a software delivery team (Agile / SAFe) - not only a business analyst or project coordinator.
• Clear, testable acceptance criteria and features broken into right-sized stories.
• Comfortable discussing APIs, data flows, and system integrations with engineers - enough depth to ask the right questions and make scope tradeoffs.
• Owned a backlog for a service with real production usage.
• Strong written and verbal communication between engineering and business or compliance stakeholders.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior software engineering, architecture, or payments subject-matter experience.
• Payments, order management, e-commerce checkout, or financial transaction systems.
• Event-driven or workflow systems (Temporal, Kafka, GCP).
• PCI, tokenization, or payment-compliance exposure.
• Retail or e-commerce order flows (pickup, delivery, marketplace, subscriptions).

Benefits

• Health Insurance.
• Dental Insurance.
• Vision Insurance.
• 401(k) + 401(k) matching.
• Paid time off.
• Referral Program.

About ZipStaff

ZipStaff partners with leading organizations to connect skilled technology professionals with high-impact contract opportunities. We focus on quality matches, clear communication, and long-term success for candidates and clients.