Product Manager - Backend

We are hiring a Platform Product Manager - Banking Platform to own and scale core banking and money-movement platform capabilities that power multiple financial products. This role focuses on bank account lifecycles, payment rails, partner integrations, and regulatory-ready infrastructure, enabling product teams to build reliably and at scale.
This is a senior product leadership role combining deep platform ownership, people management, executive-level communication, and structured problem-solving. You will operate as a trusted partner to engineering leadership and CXOs, translating complex technical and regulatory challenges into clear decisions and execution plans.
The core responsibilities for the job include the following:
Product Ownership and Strategy:
Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for one or more banking services platform domains (e. g., account onboarding, verification, bank transfers, settlements).
Define clear product goals, success metrics, and trade-offs across reliability, compliance, and feature delivery.
Manage the full product lifecycle from discovery and requirements to launch, adoption, and optimization.
Banking Infrastructure and Money Movement:
Drive platform capabilities supporting bank account lifecycles and money movement (e. g., ACH equivalents, local bank transfers, instant payments, reconciliation workflows).
Lead integrations with banking partners, payment processors, and financial infrastructure providers.
Ensure strong handling of edge cases such as failures, retries, reversals, exceptions, and settlements.
Compliance, Risk, and Resilience:
Translate regulatory, scheme, and partner constraints into clear platform requirements (e. g., auditability, controls, data retention, reporting).
Partner with Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Operations to ensure controls are embedded into platform design.
Drive platform resilience by designing for partner outages, degraded modes, and recovery scenarios.
Execution and Delivery:
Write high-quality PRDs and platform requirements that engineers can execute against with clarity.
Prioritize across run-the-business work, platform improvements, and new enablement initiatives.
Lead cross-functional execution across multiple engineering teams.
Stakeholder and Internal Customer Experience:
Act as the product owner for internal consumers of the platform (Product, Engineering, Ops).
Improve developer and internal product team experience through clear APIs, documentation, and self-serve capabilities.
Communicate progress, risks, and decisions clearly to senior leadership.
Requirements:
5-12 years of product management experience, with strong exposure to backend, platform, or infrastructure products.
Prior people management experience, including mentoring or managing product managers
Exposure to high-scale, high-availability systems with strict SLAs.
Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems, data platforms, and cloud architectures.
Strong systems thinking and technical fluency, comfortable working deeply with engineers on architecture and trade-offs.
Mindset and Operating DNA:
Experience defining and using KPIs/OKRs to drive prioritization and outcomes.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Proven ability to manage complex dependencies and cross-functional stakeholders.
Non-Fit Profiles:
Domain experts without platform ownership experience.
PMs from Low-Scale or Low-Reliability Environments.
Product managers without deep technical depth.
Pure UI/UX-First Product Managers.
Program Manager or Project Managers.
Preferred Skills:
Experience building internal platforms or developer-facing products.
Exposure to global-scale, high-availability systems.
Experience in fintech, banking, payments, or other regulated systems.

Experience
1-5 yrs