Apply on company website Dallas, TX, USA Remote (Global) USD 112,000 – 168,000 / year

Dev is hiring a Senior Technical Product Owner

Are you the one who bridges the chasm between "business outcomes" and "database migrations"? Do you dream in user stories and wake up to prioritize technical debt? Do you believe the how is just as important as the what? Are you interested in how technology will drive the future of education? Then ditch the daily triage routine and join our high-velocity ed-tech engineering organization as Turnitin’s first Sr. Technical Product Owner (TPO)! The Engineering Plan team manages the plan and build functions for our products, and we need a seasoned TPO to be the technical conscience and execution powerhouse for a core product which spans multiple engineering teams. This isn't just about managing a queue; it's about driving the technical roadmap that ensures our product meets customer needs and stays resilient for years to come. This person will work closely with multiple teams in both Product and Engineering from across different time zones and countries to ensure technical execution is on track. Turnitin supports a strong work life balance by providing a fully remote working environment; we focus on hunger for delivering for our customers versus the hours we work. Your Quest: Technical Strategy & Execution You will be the vital link, the glue, and the primary translator across our cross-functional teams. Technical Expertise & Strategy (The Architect's Mind) • System Deep Dive: Master the technical aspects of assigned domain, including system architecture, service mesh, and infrastructure components. You'll contribute to the technical strategy and roadmap, ensuring technical choices align with long-term product health. • Technical Health Champion: Directly partner with Engineering Leaders to balance new feature delivery with the critical work of system maintenance, security, and performance tuning. You are the voice advocating for proactive technical health. • Process Ninja: Analyze existing engineering workflows, identifying bottlenecks and proposing improvements to optimize the plan and build phases of our delivery pipeline. Collaboration & Alignment (The Diplomat's Touch) • Product Translation: Work with multiple Product Manager(s), each managing a business feature roadmap, to translate their collective strategic vision (e.g., "Narrative: We must launch Feature X") into measurable, outcome-based technical epics. • Inter-Roadmap Conflict Resolution: Proactively identify and resolve conflicts or resource contention arising from competing demands across different Product Managers' feature roadmaps. • Scope Whisperer: Advise PMs on scope trade-offs and technical feasibility, using data on team capacity, system dependencies, and risk to drive difficult prioritization conversations across product lines. • Delivery Visibility: Stay deeply informed on development status and execution detail, empowering the Product Manager(s) with line-of-sight on delivery targets for the features relying on your engineering team. • Dependency Czar: Take the lead on cross-team coordination, proactively managing and resolving technical and functional dependencies across Engineering, DevOps, and QA to free Engineering Leaders and boost team velocity. Backlog & Agile Leadership (The Delivery Dynamo) • Backlog Ownership: Own the team's technical backlog, meticulously synchronizing the work with the team's capacity in partnership with Engineering Leaders. • Story Mastery: Partner with Technical Lead(s) to break down complex epics into technically feasible, well-designed stories with crystal-clear acceptance criteria. • Risk & Debt Manager: Rely on your Tech Leads to surface technical risks and debt, and then execute the strategy to prioritize, schedule, and resolve them within the development cycle. • Priority Management: Support the Technical Lead(s) in ensuring the team stays focused by managing and communicating changes in work priority, often resulting from negotiations with the multiple PMs. • Agile Conductor: Lead the technical aspects of all Agile events (especially refinement and planning) to ensure the team is focused, technically aligned, and protected from priority shifts.
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Location Dallas, TX, USA
Work mode Remote (Global)
Salary USD 112,000 – 168,000 / year
Department Engineering Plan
Category Product
Posted 10 months ago
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TurnItin Job Description: Company DescriptionWhen you join Turnitin, you'll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in the global education space. For more than 20 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Over 16,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our services: Gradescope by Turnitin, iThenticate, Turnitin Feedback Studio, Turnitin Originality, Turnitin Similarity, ExamSoft, and ProctorExam.Turnitin has offices in Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Our diverse community of colleagues are all unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education. Come join us, and let's make change together.Job DescriptionTurnitin is seeking a Senior/Principal Software Engineer interested in distributed systems, data modeling, and scalability to develop and improve our award-winning educational software. As an engineer on this team, you will be working on 2 co-products that help to provide additional exam integrity to the assessment process. We operate at a high scale across global markets and seek individuals that enjoy solving complex problems.Do you have the skills—and drive—to join a tech team that’s working to digitally transform the ed-tech industry? From test-driving the latest technologies to creating high performing applications, Turnitin is constantly innovating and creating industry-leading solutions that provide peace of mind for our customers worldwide. Turnitin has an inspiring mission, cutting-edge technologies, and in-house product development. As a Senior/Principal Software Engineer at Turnitin, you’ll apply your talents in an agile environment that has the creative energy of a start-up, a highly flexible work environment, a culture of innovation, and most importantly other talented engineers, designers, and product managers to interact with and learn from.Responsibilities* Make significant contributions implementing our shared services, as well as help maintain and upgrade existing ones. * Hands-on position which requires 90-95% of writing the code. * Provide guidance in technical design and development activities. * Ensure future success and stability through code reviews and automated testing. * Work closely with software architects and database/operations engineers on system infrastructure and design. * Lead on technical design reviews and recommend improvements. * Mentor engineers in software development, Java best practices, and technical decisions and emerging technologies. QualificationsQualifications* Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline. * 5-10+ years experience of designing and developing applications using Java * Experience in more modern Java technologies * 5-10+ years of experience with relational databases * 1+ year of cloud development with AWS preferred * Experience working in an agile environment * Extensive experience with software development best practices (e.g. design patterns, test-driven development, code profiling, debugging). * Effective technical and cross-functional communication (product, design, operations). * High level knowledge and experience of industry trends and technology advancements relating to distributed systems, cloud, platform as a service, and software as a service. * Experience in building cloud-ready solutions based on microservices and multi-tenancy architecture. * Ability to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing Nice to Have:* Hands-on experience with pure Java core development (no frameworks) & performance tuning * Experience with Cloud Native solutions preferably AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, S3, etc) * Extensive experience with different architecture types including event-driven architecture * Experience in working with geographically distributed teams including the USA & European countries Additional InformationOur Mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes. Our Values underpin everything we do.Customer Centric - We realize our mission to ensure integrity and improve learning outcomes by putting educators and learners at the center of everything we do.Passion for Learning - We seek out teammates that are constantly learning and growing and build a workplace which enables them to do so.Integrity - We believe integrity is the heartbeat of Turnitin. It shapes our products, the way we treat each other, and how we work with our customers and vendors.Action & Ownership - We have a bias toward action and empower teammates to make decisions.One Team - We strive to break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each other’s successes.Global Mindset - We respect local cultures and embrace diversity. We think globally and act locally to maximize our impact on education.Seeing Beyond the Job AdAt Turnitin, we recognize it’s unrealistic for candidates to fulfill 100% of the criteria in a job ad. We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of the requirements because we know that skills evolve over time. If you’re willing to learn and evolve alongside us, join our team! Turnitin, LLC is committed to the policy that all persons have equal access to its programs, facilities and employment. We strongly encourage applications from people of color, persons with disabilities, women, and the LGBTQ+ community, regardless of age, gender, religion, marital or veterans status.
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