Product Owner, Brasov
Our Software Development department, based in Brasov, is currently looking for an agile, enthusiastic, and versatile Product Owner with strong business acumen and high accountability.
If you are a driven and delivery-focused individual with a problem-solving mindset and a love for technology, now you have an exciting opportunity to join a global provider of street lighting control solutions.
What makes us different is an easygoing and friendly working environment where there are no barriers when it comes to self-development. Each day is rewarding and challenging, as everyone is encouraged to never stop learning, growing, and innovating.
As an organization, we are characterized by flat hierarchies, transparency, and untangled decision-making.
About the role
You will use your solid knowledge of software design and development together with planning and management skills to hone a high-level vision for our products. You will support the team to execute that vision by planning, coordinating, and managing all aspects of Flashnet’s CMS platform components and by leveraging the latest available technologies in the field of IoT, energy management and Smart Cities.
About you
- At least 3-5 years of experience in project management or a similar role
- Experience with Java, Microservices, relational and non-relational databases with a good understanding of its ecosystems
- Experience with IoT, AWS, and Big Data is an advantage
- Entrepreneurial-minded and driven self-starter with extensive experience in an agile/adaptable environment
- You are comfortable making decisions with limited data
- You have worked in an agile environment and are familiar with Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence)
- Experience collaborating with a team of programmers and testers with varying skill sets
- You are familiar with different designs and architectural patterns
- Excellent written and verbal communication; good knowledge of English
About your responsibilities
- A good understanding of the project’s goals and objectives
- Define the roadmap and assure its execution
- Estimating tasks, monitoring their quality, and execution
- Manage the deployment strategy
- You will supervise and coordinate the teams throughout the development life cycle to ensure product readiness
- You will supervise and assure the continuous operation of the product
- Identification and reporting of project risks and delays that might occur; implement mitigation strategies
- Motivating and guiding the team to embrace proactivity, skills rotation, an information exchange
- Monitoring development, staging, and resource optimization
- Defining upgrade procedures and plans, backup and recovery
- Defining and maintaining the development, publishing, and architecture environments
- Liaising with the client to establish and prioritize needs and development
- Defining development Sprints and story acceptance criteria; support decomposition of requirements and specifications
- Presentation and evaluation of development stages
- Conduct effective project management to ensure key project deadlines are met
About us
We are a fast-paced tech company, designing, creating, and implementing intelligent systems for smarter cities and better infrastructure, with a special focus on smart street lighting control. The latest IT, energy and telecommunications technologies are integrated by our R&D engineers into hardware and software solutions for smarter cities and better infrastructure. We have always pursued an open, flexible hi-tech approach, open to new technologies and available for integration. With inteliLIGHT, as of January 2021, we control more than 500.000 streetlights in 40 countries on 6 continents. Furthermore, in 2020 Flashnet has been recognized by an independent study as innovation leader of the industry. Since 2022, Flashnet is part of Lucy Group.