Boku Inc. (BOKU.L) is the leading global provider of local mobile-first payments solutions. Global brands including Amazon, DAZN, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Sony, Spotify, and Tencent rely on Boku to reach millions of new paying consumers who do not use credit cards with our purpose-built payment network of more than 300 local payment methods across 70+ countries. Every year, Boku processes over $10 billion in value for our customers. Incorporated in 2008, Boku is headquartered in London and San Francisco and has employees in over 39 countries around the world, including Brazil, China, Estonia, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Singapore, and the UAE. Boku is a truly global company that takes pride in its diversity and thriving equal opportunity workplace.
Boku is seeking a Senior Technical Product Manager (TPM) to lead our Developer Platform team, driving innovation in developer experience, SDLC optimization, and security-related development efforts. This is a high-impact role within our global Product team, ensuring our engineering teams can efficiently build, deploy, and secure scalable solutions that power our robust payment platform.
You will work closely with engineering, platform, security, and release teams to define and deliver a world-class developer experience. Additionally, you will collaborate with stakeholders across the organization to establish a strategic direction for the internal developer platform, balancing innovation, security, and SDLC efficiency.
Responsibilities:
Developer Experience
- Define and execute the strategy for a seamless, efficient internal developer platform.
- Build and maintain the roadmap to enhance developer productivity and streamline SDLC workflows.
- Gather and analyze feedback to optimize processes and improve engineering efficiency.
DevOps & Infrastructure
- Lead improvements in CI/CD pipelines, automation, and deployment for faster, more secure releases.
- Collaborate with engineering and platform teams to implement scalable, cloud-native solutions.
- Ensure high availability, reliability, and observability of the developer platform.
Security & Compliance
- Implement secure coding practices, vulnerability management, and access controls.
- Drive secure SDLC adoption with automated security measures.
- Enhance security tooling, audits, and risk assessments while monitoring and addressing threats.
Innovation & Scalability
- Continuously evaluate and integrate new tools and technologies for a highperformance engineering environment.
- Identify and execute opportunities to enhance developer experience and platform scalability.
Cross-functional Collaboration
- Advocate for engineering needs at the leadership level.
- Align with engineering and security teams to balance innovation and regulatory needs.
- Define KPIs and metrics to track adoption, developer satisfaction and efficiency.
Stakeholder Management
- Act as a key liaison between Product, Technology, and Security leadership.
- Communicate vision, strategy, roadmap and execution to senior leadership, ensuring transparency and alignment.
- Balance business needs, technical feasibility, and cost-effectiveness in planning and delivery.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 5+ years in technical product management, ideally in developer tools.
- Strong technical background in engineering, DevOps, security, and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred).
- Proven experience delivering developer platforms, DevOps pipelines, or security-focused solutions at scale.
- Deep understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud-native architectures.
- Knowledge of security best practices in coding.
- Strong cross-functional leadership, driving collaboration across engineering, security, and product teams.
- Analytical mindset with expertise in tracking platform adoption and efficiency metrics.
- Proficient in Agile/Scrum, with skills in product discovery, planning, and release management.
- Excellent communication, bridging technical and non-technical stakeholders, and influencing cross-functional teams and senior leadership.
- Self-driven, highly organized, and able to manage multiple tasks and stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in a global, distributed engineering environment.
- Background as a full-stack engineer or technical role with deep technical discussions.
- Engineering leaders or managers with prior experience in Product
- Management looking to transition into a full-time PM role are strongly encouraged to apply.
- Growth-oriented, proactive, and independent with minimal guidance.
- Flexible across time zones; international market experience is a plus.
- Familiarity with payment industry regulations (e.g., GDPR, DORA) is a plus.