About the Project
Our client is a rapidly growing healthcare scale-up with a proven and successful business model. Innovation, quality, and customer satisfaction are their top priorities, and they place great value on providing long-term, reliable support to their customers.
They are on a mission to digitize essential healthcare services, making them affordable, accessible, and attractive to people everywhere. Built by a goal-driven team with multidisciplinary backgrounds, they combine medical excellence with cutting-edge digital innovation while maintaining the highest quality standards.
Join an organization where your work directly contributes to transforming healthcare and making it more accessible and effective for people around the world.
Your Key Focus Areas
We are looking for a Technical Product Owner (Backend Delivery) to join our growing engineering organization. In this role, you will translate business priorities into actionable backlog items, maintain a reliable sprint cadence, and ensure efficient collaboration between product and engineering.
You’ll take ownership of backend delivery — ensuring the right work gets done, in the right order, with clear priorities and stability for the development team. The position is highly execution-driven, with a strong focus on process clarity, technical understanding, and hands-on problem solving.
Our consumer-facing storefronts run on Shopify Plus.
This role focuses on backend services that integrate with the storefront via APIs/webhooks - no theme or Liquid work. You will work closely with our Lead Developer, backend engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders across digital health platforms, reporting directly to the Head of Product Management & Engineering.
Key Responsibilities:
● Sprint & Delivery Management – Own the product backlog and maintain clear prioritization based on business-critical initiatives
● Lead Sprint Ceremonies – Drive refinement, planning, and review sessions while ensuring a stable, predictable delivery cadence
● Define Sprint Goals – Communicate clear objectives to keep the team focused and aligned
● Track Progress & Remove Blockers – Identify issues early and ensure smooth delivery through proactive coordination
● Translate Business to Technical – Convert business initiatives into well-defined user stories and technical tasks
● Backlog Refinement – Continuously prioritize according to impact and dependencies, ensuring stories are precise and actionable
● Hands-On Technical Support – Support the backend team with direct database checks, log interpretation, and technical verification when needed
● Maintain Workflow Stability – Minimize unplanned work and protect developers from disruptions
● Clarify Requirements Rapidly – Keep momentum high by providing quick, clear answers
● Coordinate Dependencies – Identify and sequence dependencies early with the Lead Developer
● Ensure Transparency – Maintain clear communication on priorities and timelines across product and engineering
● Foster Cross-Team Communication – Reduce uncertainty and rework through strong collaboration
● Leverage AI Tools – Actively use AI to accelerate and improve day-to-day product delivery
● Drive AI Innovation – Explore, test, and integrate AI-based solutions into workflows and engineering processes
● Promote Experimentation – Build a culture of continuous learning around automation and intelligent tooling
Your Expertise
● 3–5 years of relevant experience as a Product Owner, Technical Project Manager, or similar delivery role
● Proven track record in backlog management, sprint cycles, and agile workflows
● Strong understanding of backend systems (microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures)
● Familiarity with Shopify APIs/webhooks is a plus (not required).
● Ability and willingness to perform basic technical checks (e.g. database queries, reading logs, basic troubleshooting)
● Familiarity with agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and tools such as Jira, Confluence, Notion, GitHub, or similar
● Excellent communicator with a structured, pragmatic, and delivery-oriented mindset
● Curious and open to adopting AI tools to enhance productivity and collaboration
● Fluent in English (German not required)
● Willing to travel to Hamburg from time to time for team workshops and meetings
Compensation
● Opportunity to shape the backend delivery backbone of a fast-scaling digital health company
● Work closely with an experienced tech team in a hands-on, results-oriented environment
● A culture that values structure, efficiency, and continuous improvement
● Flexibility to work remotely with occasional travel to our Hamburg office
● Competitive compensation and a collaborative, high-impact working atmosphere
About us
Stark & Partners bridges international companies with Portuguese talent, helping businesses launch and scale successfully in Portugal.
We have built our company on a simple belief: when talented people have the right environment, amazing things happen. Today we're a growing team with a strong sense of community and one clear goal: making our clients' expansion to Portugal successful and bring more jobs to Portugal.
Your Career Matters
We're not looking for people to fill seats – we're looking for talented individuals who want to build something meaningful. Bring your skills, ideas, and ambition. We'll provide the platform, support, and opportunities.
How We Work
✓ Trust over micromanagement – We hire great people and let them shine
✓ Growth opportunities – Your development is our priority
✓ Flat structure – No unnecessary hierarchies blocking your path
✓ Diverse challenges – Work that keeps you learning and engaged
✓ Supportive team – Colleagues who have your back
✓ Real impact – See the results of your work every day
Ready to grow with us?
Apply today, and we’ll reach out to you after reviewing your profile!
