Position: Product Owner - FinTech
Company: Knight Capital Funding
Category: Product Manager
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

Do you want to develop technology that reshapes our financial landscape? Do you have a passion for supporting businesses and for helping them achieve their dreams? So do we! Knight Capital is the Fintech arm of publicly traded Ready Capital Corporation, located in sunny Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

We build software that is used by internal staff, external partners and our clients. Our platforms help business gain access to capital in fast frictionless ways. The Knight Capital Product department is looking for a technical project manager (Product Owner) to lead a team of software engineers.

-Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Plan, define and prioritize the product backlog and product roadmap
• Clarify requirements and make timely decisions on execution details
• Work with stakeholders to evaluate best the approach when solving business problems
• Maintain development and production environments and properly deploy changes
• Establish timelines and product benchmarks, holds team accountable to deadlines
• Conduct daily standup meetings with Development team
• Coach developers to achieve high performance
 

-Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• 3+ years in project management role
• Thrive in an agile, fast-paced and constantly changing environment
• Deep understanding of OOP and experience with at least two OOP languages (Apex, Java, Javascript, Python)
• Solid understanding of web technologies, such as JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, XML, JSON, and Ajax
• Solid knowledge of Database technologies such as MySQL, SQL, and relational database schema design and development
• Experience in automated testing including unit and functional testing using Python, Java, JUnit, Selenium
• Exposure to Salesforce.com and or AWS cloud services
• Team focused
• Extremely detailed oriented
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills in English, oral and written