Technical Product Owner - Developer Platform Team

Combine your passion for technology and data in one of the fastest growing companies in the e-commerce space! At Picnic, we are revolutionizing the way people buy groceries with our innovative and sustainable app-only service.

🥜 In a nutshell

Picnic's tech team has grown impressively year on year, both in terms of software products and the engineering team required to fuel a world class, tech powered online supermarket. Engineering lies at the core of everything we do. We build all customer facing, fulfillment automation, data, distribution and last mile systems in house. Under the hood this means 10k+ code changes, 100k+ builds and 2000+ deployments every single month. Providing an exceptional developer experience is at the forefront of everything we do.

As Technical Product Owner, you will be enabling teams to accelerate their development and delivery cycles in their CI and CD pipelines, ship high quality and consistent code with our impressive suite of static analysis tooling, and leverage foundational microservice building blocks with our cohesive array of Java and Python support modules. And much more!

Our approach: If you are someone fascinated by the idea of accelerating 40+ development teams of 320+ engineers via our internal development platform products, then let's get in touch! During the recruitment process, we will understand together what your strengths are and what you can still learn and develop.

🎯 What you’ll do

• Combine user research and data analysis to gain a deep understanding of the needs of developers and their software products. You will identify areas of improvement to the development experience, and step change opportunities.
• Leverage your analytical skills to break down problems and find key opportunities to enhance the developer experience by analyzing the behaviors and feedback from our 320+ internal customers.
• Define and maintain the platform roadmap in alignment with engineers and leads of other teams, and advocate it to the entire tech team.
• Build and support a highly effective team in a rapidly growing organization, together with your technical counterpart.
• Drive swift and smooth adoption of platform solutions across the tech team to maximise developer experience and impact.

⭐ About you

• You have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Econometrics, Robotics or related
• You have at least 3 years of experience in a product-led organization as an Technical Lead, Product Analyst or Product Owner
• You have strong analytical and conceptual skills and the mindset of having data & tech at the core of everything you do
• You have a technical background with a good understanding of software development practices, cloud computing and DevOps processes
• You're deeply passionate about shipping great technical products with a fantastic developer experience
• You have solid interpersonal and collaborative skills to interact with different stakeholders

💻 Technologies we use

• Java 21 (Spring 6 with Spring Boot 3, Reactor, Immutables, Maven)
• Python 3.x
• RabbitMQ and Kafka
• PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• Git and Docker
• AWS, Helm, Terraform, Kubernetes, Vault
• Datadog, Grafana and Prometheus

Hungry for more? Check out for an overview of our tech stack.

📖 Picnic perks

Every expert was once a beginner!

You’ll get plenty of opportunities to challenge yourself and grow, including the Picnic Tech Academy, Lunch & Learn sessions, and tailored soft skills training. We also offer free professional weekly Dutch language courses.

Make a difference

You’ll work in an awesome startup environment with the freedom to drive your own projects and create a visible impact. Our fully electric vehicles and sustainable business model mean you’ll also be contributing to making the world a better place!

Teamwork makes the dream work

With more than 80 nationalities across 3 countries, you’ll be part of a diverse company with plenty of cool stuff to get involved with, from board game evenings to after-work drinks to our company ski trip and more!

You are what you eat

You’ll get freshly prepared, healthy lunches and snacks (with plenty of vegetarian, vegan, and halal options). Coffee snob? Don’t worry, our amazing Picnic barista has you covered.

Stay healthy

Mental health is important. As well as having the option to speak with Picnic colleagues who act as confidential advisors, our collaboration with OpenUp gives you easy access to professional psychologists, along with workshops and materials.
There are plenty of sports communities and events to get involved with, from tennis to yoga to climbing!

Attractive package

We offer competitive compensation and a pension plan that looks out for your future self as well as 25 vacation days per year, so you can recharge your batteries.

Commitment to equal opportunities

Picnic is an equal opportunity employer—this means that all decisions regarding applications will be based on qualifications and merit. Applicants will be regarded independently of age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, skin color, civil status, religious beliefs, physical or mental disability, or any other factors protected by law.

At Picnic, we celebrate and value our differences and are committed to building a safe and inclusive working environment where everyone can be themselves.