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# Technical Product Owner - Payments

- **Company:** Cornerstone Barricades
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $116,480 - $118,560
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Software Engineering, Data Streaming, Systems Integration, Tokenization, Apache Kafka
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://zipstaff.betterteam.com/technical-product-owner-payments/apply/standard

## About the Role

* 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).

## Description

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.