THE ROLE

You'll be the product owner for a backend engineering team that looks after search, autocomplete and location data. Over the next few months, the team is modernising how client stores and serves location data: moving to a current location service, enriching our places with outside data (such as GeoNames and OpenStreetMap), adding boundaries so we can search by area, and putting quality checks in place so bad records don't reach customers.

This is a technical delivery role. We need someone with the briefing and execution skills of a product manager, who is happy to focus fully on technical work. UX, customer research, and discovery are not an integral part of this role.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Own and prioritise the team's backlog, working closely with the engineering manager
- Turn goals into clear, well-scoped tickets with testable acceptance criteria
- Run refinement and planning, and keep delivery moving sprint to sprint
- Work with engineers on data models, API contracts and technical trade-offs
- Track and manage dependencies with other teams (for example, the team building our new search service)




- Use data to check data quality, measure impact and spot problems early
- Keep stakeholders up to date on progress, risks and decisions

WHAT WE NEED
- Solid experience as a Technical Product Owner, Technical PM or similar, ideally on backend, platform or data products
- Strong technical understanding: confident with APIs, JSON, data structures and databases, and able to hold their own in technical discussions with engineers
- Comfortable working with data to answer their own questions
- Excellent ticket writing and backlog management (Jira, Confluence)
- Experience working in agile teams
- Clear written and spoken English

NICE TO HAVE
- Hands-on engineering background (for example, a former developer)
- MongoDB experience
- Geospatial data (GeoJSON, polygons, OpenStreetMap, GeoNames)
- Search or autocomplete systems (Atlas Search, Elasticsearch or similar)
- SQL for self-serve analysis
- Travel or marketplace experience

📌 Technical Product Owner (Bengaluru)
🏢 Tavant Technologies
📍 Bengaluru