Product Owner

Based in Bridgend town centre, STS Commercial provides software for brokers who specialise in UK consumer loans and credit reports.

  • Bridgend, South Wales

  • £32,000 - £40,000

  • Permanent, full-time

We have an exciting opportunity to work with a team of internet marketers and developers. Whilst the team is small, you will have the chance to make a huge impact on this established business. Make your mark on the internet and have software you help to develop be used by millions of people per year.

We're looking for a Product Owner with 4+ years relevent experience and the following core skills:

  • Strong HTML/CSS/JS
  • Object-oriented PHP in a production environment
  • Experience of modern JavaScript framework(s) such as JQuery, Angular, React
  • In-depth understanding of relational databases with experience in some SQL variant, e.g. MySQL/MSSQL/Postgres
  • An excellent understanding of networks, and how they relate to web applications, eg domains, LAN/WAN
  • Problem solving
  • Proven technical product development experience

You may also be able to demonstrate experience with:

  • PHP application frameworks such as CakePHP, Laravel, etc
  • Object-oriented Java in a production environment
  • Version control software, e.g. Git, SVN
  • Agile project management
  • Test driven development
  • Project management and direct management of developers
  • Cloud computing and linux server setup and administration/tuning for performance

You'll be involved with the following work:

  • Customer data management and reporting systems that interface with many other systems including UK phone networks, email service providers, and credit reference agencies.
  • Work with a cross functional team to deliver continuous improvements and new features to our software applications, taking ownership of existing products as well as planning and implementing new ones
  • Manage the product backlog and tune short term priorities balancing requests from different stakeholders
  • Update and adapt a long term roadmap, based on changing demands of the market

We offer a friendly office environment in the centre of Bridgend within just a short walk from the bus and train stations, and close to the M4. Commutable from Cardiff, Newport and Swansea.

What the role offers

  • Salary: £32,000 - £40,000
  • 40 hours per week flexi-time, with home working available once you are established
  • Flat hierarchy, work directly with management and decision makers with short release cycles
  • Company pension
  • Increased annual leave allowance for each year of service after two years

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