Technical Product Owner - Backend eCommerce

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Michigan
86K-134K Annually
Mid level
eCommerce • Retail • Sales
The Role
The Technical Product Owner leads backend software initiatives, collaborating with teams to create a strategic technical roadmap and maintain a prioritized product backlog while facilitating agile ceremonies and solving issues.
Summary Generated by Built In

As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you’re provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family – take care of your career and your community!

 

Meijer Rewards

  • Weekly pay

  • Scheduling flexibility

  • Paid parental leave 

  • Paid education assistance

  • Team member discount

  • Development programs for advancement and career growth

 

Please review the job profile below and apply today!

We’re looking for a Technical Product Owner who thrives at the intersection of technology and people—and is ready for a challenging but rewarding career. You’ll help lead backend software initiatives that drive real business impact, partnering with engineers, architects, and stakeholders to shape solutions that matter. This role is ideal for someone with 3–5 years of experience, a solid technical foundation, a strong ability to learn quickly, adapt to new technologies, and grow into deeper ownership.
This position is considered flexible remote. Travel to the office required once per quarter or more as needed. Residence required within our 6-state footprint (MI, WI, IL, IN, OH or KY) for remote position.

What You’ll Be Doing

 

Building Bridges Across Teams

  • Collaborate with architects, engineers, and business stakeholders to create a technical roadmap aligned with strategic goals.
  • Translate between technical and non-technical teams to ensure clarity and alignment.

Shaping the Backend Technical Product Vision

  • Maintain a prioritized product backlog that reflects both business needs and technical opportunities.
  • Refine backlog items regularly based on team input and evolving priorities.

Crafting Meaningful Stories

  • Write clear and actionable user stories and acceptance criteria.
  • Document workflows and requirements to support shared understanding.

Leading with Purpose

  • Support the execution of product features with a focus on quality, transparency, and team empowerment.
  • Facilitate agile ceremonies and contribute to a development process that’s efficient, inclusive, and outcome-driven.

Solving Problems Together

  • Help identify and resolve blockers, working with the team to find creative and sustainable solutions.
  • Learn to assess system performance and suggest enhancements that improve usability, scalability, and efficiency.

 

What You Bring with You

Experience & Growth Potential

  • Bachelor’s degree or 3–5 years of experience in software product ownership or technical project coordination.
  • Exposure to Agile/Scrum or SAFe environments.
  • Demonstrated ability to learn new tools, technologies, workflows and business domains quickly.

Technical Foundations

  • Familiarity with backend e-commerce systems and architecture styles (e.g., microservices, event-driven).
  • Basic understanding of technologies such as Java (Spring Boot), GraphQL, Kafka, RESTful APIs, and cloud platforms like Azure.

Communication & Leadership

  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to collaborate across teams and present ideas clearly.
  • Comfortable facilitating meetings and engaging with stakeholders.

Teamwork & Impact

  • A team-first mindset with a passion for building products that make a difference.
  • Ability to inspire trust, drive alignment, and create momentum across diverse teams.

We are committed to offering competitive pay that reflects market standards and ensures consistency within our organization.

The pay range for this position is listed below.

$86,000.00 - $134,000.00

This pay range represents the minimum and maximum base pay for the position, which is determined by factors such as market data, the qualifications required, the level of responsibilities associated with the role and other roles at this same level. Your specific pay rate within this range will be based on your experience, qualifications, and skills compared to the internal team you’ll be joining.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life insurance, a 401(k) plan with employer match, disability leave, and paid time off (PTO). In addition to these core benefits, we are committed to supporting your overall well-being and career growth. Our offerings include a variety of programs designed to support your personal and professional development, such as paid parental leave, paid education assistance (including free education), a childcare subsidy and more. We are dedicated to creating a work environment that promotes work-life balance, long-term health and financial security, and continuous professional development

Top Skills

Azure
GraphQL
Java (Spring Boot)
Kafka
Restful Apis
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The Company
Grand Rapids, Michigan
26,032 Employees
Year Founded: 1934

What We Do

It takes guts to start a business during the Great Depression. And it takes vision to keep it going. Our founder, Hendrik Meijer, opened Thrifty Acres in 1934. Almost thirty years later, his son, Fred, pioneered the world’s first ever supercenter – setting the table for who we are today: a multi-billion-dollar household name in retail.

Of course, we’re not done. Not by a long shot. We recently launched the nation’s largest grocery home-delivery service – reinventing the business of grocery shopping … again.
A lot has changed over the years, except for one thing; we’re still family owned. And that sense of family runs deep in everything we do. It’s the difference between selling a product and serving a community, and it’s the reason we’ve given back over $30 million to local food pantries in the last ten years.

So, if you appreciate the pioneering spirit of Meijer, we’d like to connect with you. Because the bigger our family, the better

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