Senior Technical Product Manager / Senior Technical Proxy Product Owner (Java)

Quick Facts

• Remote within the EU
• Contract type: Long-term B2B project
• Salary: Up to EUR 5,000/month
• Languages: Fluent English (must-have), French (nice-to-have)

Description

Senior Technical PM / Technical Proxy PO to take ownership of a critical enterprise application used across multiple products and external partner integrations. Join a mature and technically complex environment with significant business logic, API integrations, and legacy Java components, ensuring stability and predictability while translating business requirements into clear technical priorities.

Responsibilities

• Manage, stabilize, and evolve an existing complex enterprise Java application.
• Translate complex business requirements into actionable technical tasks and priorities for engineering teams.
• Own, refine, and prioritize the technical product backlog.
• Balance new feature requests with bug fixes, production issues, and technical debt.
• Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, and delivery follow-up in close collaboration with backend developers.
• Analyze REST APIs, JSON payloads, endpoints, and integration flows between internal services and external systems.
• Use tools such as Postman and SQL to investigate production issues, trace data flows, and support root-cause analysis.
• Work with API documentation including Swagger/OpenAPI.
• Navigate legacy systems and Java-based architecture to help maintain platform stability and predictability.
• Triage production incidents and bug reports, distinguishing critical blockers from lower-priority issues.
• Coordinate technical discussions between business stakeholders and engineering teams.
• Maintain clear visibility of project risks, technical blockers, dependencies, and delivery roadmaps.
• Support effective communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• Technical background: Technical education (Computer Science or Engineering) and/or previous hands-on software development experience; Java development background or experience with complex Java architectures is highly valuable.
• Role experience: 5+ years as a Technical Project Manager, Technical Product Owner, Technical Proxy Product Owner, or similar role within complex enterprise IT environments.
• Strong technical orientation: comfortable discussing implementation details directly with senior developers.
• API knowledge: REST APIs, JSON, Postman, Swagger/OpenAPI, backend integration flows.
• Database skills: relational database knowledge and ability to write SQL queries for data inspection and verification.
• Autonomy: work independently, navigate ambiguity, structure complex problems, and drive decisions forward.
• Communication: communicate effectively with technical teams and senior business stakeholders.
• Tools: Jira, Confluence, Miro or Excalidraw, and modern productivity tools including Claude or ChatGPT.
• Languages: business-fluent English required; French is a strong advantage.

Benefits

• Long-term B2B project
• Up to EUR 5,000/month