Technical Product Owner - Rails Team

Who is Rainforest?

Rainforest is an early stage payments-as-a-service startup that has developed a solution that makes monetizing payments for vertically focused software platforms fair and simple.

We focus on small-to-mid sized platforms that want to add value to their small business customers through embedded payments — and want to do so without adding operational or regulatory burdens or costs.

Led by a successful repeat fintech founder with deep knowledge of the industry, and with venture backing from a Top 10 VC firm, Rainforest is well positioned to make an impact in the payments-as-a-service space, and we're looking for new team members who want to be a part of this journey!

Who are we looking for?

We’re looking for an experienced Technical Product Owner who is passionate about bringing payments products to life. You’ll partner with our Payment Rails engineering team to define and prioritize payment products that our clients integrate into their vertical SaaS software.

In this role we need an individual who enjoys working with a significant amount of autonomy and is excited about helping to build out payment infrastructure that moves billions of dollars through the Rainforest ecosystem. You’ll know you're the right candidate when you enjoy digging into the details of reliable payments technology and crafting tickets, collaborating with vendors integrated in the payment flows, and looking for opportunities to grow and expand your product experience.

What are some of the high-impact opportunities you’ll tackle?

• Owning delivery of product initiatives and releases by defining, documenting, and communicating goals, requirements, and constraints

• Working with product leadership to translate product strategy into well-defined functional and technical requirements for the engineering team

• Functioning within the Rails engineering team, attend agile meetings, help communicate the product stories and requirements, and execute the delivery of a product into production at scale

• Helping to manage and prioritize the product backlog

• Building strong collaborative working relationships with product and engineering teams as well as Rainforest internal and external stakeholders

• Working with our vendors to ensure integrations are accurate and maintained

This opportunity is for you if you have / are:

• Experience with payment processing and/or PayFac, especially building payment products, as well as an understanding of foundational concepts such as the credit card payment lifecycle (auth, settle, funding, etc.), factors involved in interchange qualification, ACH funding timeframes, and merchant underwriting

• 5+ years as a Product Owner or similar role

• Strong technical background with the ability to understand the technical architecture of a modern cloud-based SaaS payments product

• Understanding and experience with Product Management concepts such as roadmaps, product vision and strategy, and product market research

• Proven experience in gathering requirements, creating documentation, and user stories, as well as a strong understanding and work with agile scrum teams

• Ability to visualize and prototype stories and feature sets

• Strong organization, written and communication skills

• Ease of working within a team structure in a collaborative manner

• Strong analytical and quantitative skills

• Experience in agile software development with continuous deployment release strategies

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in the areas of Information Science, Computer Science, or related disciplines

We offer a comprehensive health benefits package, unlimited paid time off, paid parental leave, a fun and flexible working environment, and continuously invest in our people and our culture.

If you require any accommodations throughout the pre-employment process, please contact our HR team at hr@rainforestpay.com