Position: BA / Product Manager
Company: SPD-Ukraine
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

SPD-Ukraine is looking for a BA / Product Manager to join our team.

About the project:

Poynt is a successful innovative startup that was recently acquired by GoDaddy. It is operating with smart payment terminals that made a revolution in the payment industry for offline businesses (stores, restaurants, SPAs etc.). It provides the next level all-in-one e-commerce solution that turns a payment terminal into a smart device with lots of features for business. These Android based terminals support all modern payment technologies, including traditional magstripe cards, EMV (chip and pin), NFC (Google Wallet and Apple Play), Bluetooth, QR codes, and beacon technology. Poynt has clients in the US, UK, Canada, EU and begins its expansion to Asia.

Its new parent company GoDaddy is a well known domain registrar and web hosting company, that has grown to one of the leaders in online commerce with more than 20 million clients. Poynt is going to provide its service to millions of current GoDaddy merchants across the globe. It allows merchants to use the power of unified solution for online and offline commerce. Additionally, Poynt’s Payment Facilitator would be embedded in the current GoDaddy E-commerce platform as an internal system for payments processing. This would allow GoDaddy to provide full-cycle Omni-commerce solutions for their customers.

Stack:

Backend: Java, NodeJS, C (android os), Go, Mysql, Couchbase DB, Kafka, Apache tomcat, Redis, SpringMVC, SpringBoot, Hibernate

Frontend: TypeScript, JavaScript, ReactJS, VueJS, EmberJS, RxJS

Few words about SPD-Ukraine

At SPD-Ukraine, great people create great software. Our story started in 2006. Now the team of 500+ cool specialists continues to write our story. Located in Ukraine (Kyiv, Cherkasy), we create products used by people all over the world. And what we do is what gets us out of bed in the morning.

Required qualifications:

3+ years of experience as a business analyst in a software development area
Ability to work with uncertainties
Experience in the creation of good structured documentation, diagrams, specifications, and wireframes
Understanding of UX best practices and standards
Experience in using wireframe tools.
Ability to identify and describe use cases
High level of responsibility and proactivity
Excellent communication and analytical skills
English level — Upper-Intermediate. Both written and spoken
Nice to have

Understanding in Payment systems, Payment processing, Risk engine, E-commerce, and Payment terminals
Technical background, basic experience working as a developer or QA
Scope of your responsibilities:

Interact with PMs, development teams, and other stakeholders
Plan, facilitate, and conduct requirements elicitation, documentation analysis, and validation
Participate in backlog grooming, defining upcoming release scope
Team Backlog management, Sprint’s resources allocation.
Support development team in clarifications of requirements and manage change requests
Keep in a good shape backlog and requirements
Maintain actual products and projects documentation, update Confluence, and Jira tickets
Create wireframes and mocks for specs

What we offer for that

Conditions & Space

You’ll have 20 paid holidays. Get sick? Stay home and get better — sick leavers are paid. Flexible working hours. Work remote or at the office (Kyiv, Cherkasy). You’ll be free to adjust your working space — choose a type of chair and model of laptop (depending on the project).

Clients & Projects

You’ll be engaged in the creation of products granted SIIA CODIE and GeekWire awards. Our clients are startups and companies with strong investments and innovative ideas. You’re free to change a project — internal rotation is available.

Learning & development

Online corporate library, soft skills training, internal educational events are available for you. Our Career Advisor helps you with a Personal Development Plan. SPD-Ukraine covers your expenses on conferences, certifications, etc. Plus, free English classes with native speakers.

Sport & Health

You’ll get compensation for sports activities. If you take COVID testing, SPD-Ukraine covers your expenses. Medical insurance is also available. You’ll be able to get online support from psychologists and mentors provided by a third-party service.

Fun & Activities

You’ll enjoy two big company events (SPD Summer Party and SPD Winter Awards). Every month you’ll be able to have team-building activities. Presents are waiting for you for big life events (marriage, childbirth) and nice presents just for fun.

Does this sound like the kind of place you want to work at? We look forward to hearing ’hi’ from you :)