Tech Product Owner

Here at Mindera, we are building a world-class team and would love for you to join us. As a Product Owner with a strong technical background, you will use your experience with Agile methodologies and your deep understanding of the SDLC to lead a team of developers crafting solutions.

Working with our team, you will be involved in the product life cycle, gathering and refining  playable requirements, defining, working closely with the development and business; and leveraging solid communication with the stakeholders to guarantee constant progress and alignment. 

We are looking for Product Owner who have experience working with Platform Engineering and Reliability & Performance Engineering and can be the first point of contact for clients and business stakeholders.

Requirements

• 8+ years of enterprise experience supporting Agile development teams
• Ideally, previous experience in SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) and/or Platform Engineering environments.
• Proven track record of management skills in areas such as conflict resolution, multi-reporting, roadmap planning and backlog management.
• A software engineering background with the ability to comfortably speak in technical jargon
• Familiarity with DevOps principles and workflows.
• Strong knowledge of:
• Monitoring and observability concepts
• Metrics, logging, and tracing tools (e.g., DataDog, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.)
• Infrastructure and/or application performance considerations
• Proven experience leading engineering teams
• Experience with international projects and remote teams across multiple locations.
• Effective communication skills
  

• Define the product vision and strategy for internal products related to observability, monitoring, and performance.
• Partner closely with Platform and SRE engineers to prioritize work and evolve internal tooling.
• Understand the needs of internal engineering teams and balance technical requirements with broader business goals.
• Manage the product backlog, define acceptance criteria, and oversee delivery progress.
• Support initiatives that improve system scalability, reliability, and observability.
• Lead discussions with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Promote best practices in DevOps, instrumentation, monitoring, and alerting.

Benefits

• Health Insurance, because health comes first
• Flexible working hours
• Open holidays, take the time you need for yourself
• Profit distribution for everyone
• Mindera Annual Trip, Sports, and sharing groups to connect and have fun
• Training & conferences, create your own training plan
• Child Care vouchers
  
  

Other Good Things:

• Choose Laptop & Peripherals that best suit your needs
• Hotspot with unlimited usage (PT), for work or Netflix ;)
• We have amazing offices in Porto, Aveiro, and Coimbra if you want to physically connect with minders. Remote from Portugal is also an option. Remote from other Countries will depend on your current location and Projects.
• At the offices, we have a wide range of snacks to keep you fed and healthy
• Partnerships with local businesses

Most of all you get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together in a politics-free environment. Our culture reflects our lean and self-organization attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication. Freedom and Responsibility go hand in hand, and we value commitment, feedback, and empathy.

At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love.

Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera.

We partner with our clients, to understand their products and deliver high-performance, resilient, and scalable software systems that create an impact on their users and businesses across the world.

You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together.

Our culture reflects our lean and self-management attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication.

We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.

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Our offices are located: Porto, Portugal | Aveiro, Portugal | Coimbra, Portugal | Leicester, UK | San Diego, USA | San Francisco, USA | Chennai, India | Bengaluru, India | Cluj-Napoca, Romania | Blumenau, Brazil