Senior Technical Product Manager

Route

Technical Product Manager focused on backend systems for Route's ecommerce platform. Leading innovative product development and team collaboration across engineering and platform initiatives.

Posted 6/5/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $161,000 - $226,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the team’s roadmap end-to-end across backend platform systems, APIs, and data infrastructure, balancing reliability, platform enablement, and new capability development.
Partner closely with engineering leadership to shape architectural direction, including API design, schema governance, and event-driven system patterns.
Drive prioritization across cross-functional platform requests, helping establish scalable, durable solutions rather than one-off implementations.
Collaborate with data and analytics teams to support warehouse and infrastructure needs, including decisions around event structures, identifiers, and data emission strategy.
Lead product coordination during incident response, helping drive prioritization and decision-making when critical systems are impacted.
Create clear technical documentation, including PRDs and architectural decision records, to support long-term system scalability and maintainability.
Translate complex technical concepts and platform investments into clear business impact for cross-functional and executive stakeholders.
Navigate complex tradeoffs across scalability, speed, reliability, and long-term platform health in a fast-moving environment.
Contribute to a collaborative team culture through thoughtful communication, strong technical judgment, and a long-term mindset focused on building sustainable systems.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of product management experience, including significant experience in technical or platform-focused PM roles supporting backend systems, APIs, data infrastructure, or distributed systems.
Strong technical fluency in backend architecture concepts such as event-driven systems, API design and versioning, schema evolution, idempotency, eventual consistency, and distributed system reliability.
Experience partnering closely with engineering teams on high-scale event ingestion, processing systems, or platform infrastructure with an understanding of operational and scalability tradeoffs.
Experience supporting or partnering with data engineering organizations on data platform initiatives, including familiarity with modern warehouse and transformation tooling such as Snowflake, Databricks, dbt, or similar technologies.
Strong SQL skills with the ability to independently investigate data quality, integrity, and reporting questions.
Experience leading or supporting platform teams that serve internal product or engineering teams, including roadmap intake, prioritization, API contracts, SLA management, and balancing standardization with business needs.
Demonstrated success driving reliability, scalability, or technical debt initiatives that improved platform performance, reduced operational burden, or strengthened system stability.
Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly across technical and non-technical audiences.
Comfortable navigating ambiguity, influencing cross-functional stakeholders, and making thoughtful tradeoff decisions in a fast-moving environment.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Prior engineering experience is a plus.

Benefits

Comp & perks

We offer to pay 95% - 100% of your health insurance premiums for you and your family
remote or hybrid work arrangements
unlimited PTO
401k matching
formalized growth opportunities
learning & development
DEI programs & events

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Hard Skills & Tools

backend architectureAPI designevent-driven systemsschema evolutionidempotencyeventual consistencydistributed system reliabilitySQLdata quality investigationdata reporting

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationtechnical judgmentdecision-makingprioritizationinfluencing stakeholdersnavigating ambiguitylong-term mindsetthoughtful tradeoff decisionsbuilding sustainable systems