Senior Product Manager - ShopCore Backend

How do you make our customers happy?

Every feature bol's shop teams produce - whether it's a customer-facing website innovation, an in-app UX tweak, or an update across agentic channels - is built on a backend environment that you create, cultivate, and curate. You own the backend that lets dozens of teams scale, experiment, and ship with confidence, without ever having to think about what's happening under the hood. And our shop teams are eager to move faster, if you can let them.

The biggest challenge

The challenge isn't adding backend capabilities; it’s shaping the architecture that 55+ teams depend on. Your team owns the Shop API (federated GraphQL) that exposes their data to bol's shopping channels, the Shop Router that manages all incoming traffic, and several other services at the foundation of the shop. You'll balance competing priorities, clarify dependencies, and drive platform-wide initiatives that improve scalability, engineering effectiveness, and delivery agility without slowing down the teams that rely on that foundation. Can you keep 55+ teams happy by delivering a reliable and scalable environment?

What you do as the Senior Product Manager - ShopCore Backend

You own the product direction for the backend of the Technical Shop Foundation, working alongside a peer Product Manager Frontend and the Group Product Manager who oversees the combined portfolio. Your focus is on the ShopCore Backend team, which builds the backend capabilities that enable shop teams to create better consumer experiences,faster.
You translate strategy into clear, measurable objectives, coordinate delivery, and make trade-offs explicit, connecting roadmap choices to both business and technical outcomes. The role blends developing product strategy, product discovery, and driving cross-team execution. You work closely with engineering, architecture, product, and security specialists to align on outcomes and guide complex platform initiatives from idea to impact. Your key responsibilities:

• Develop and execute the backend vision for the shopping channels
• Connect with internal users to understand their needs and problems
• Drive platform-wide initiatives that improve scalability, engineering effectiveness, and delivery agility
• Coordinate delivery, balancing priorities and dependencies across the backend product
• Build long-term partnerships with engineering, architecture, product, and security stakeholders
• Collaborate closely with engineering on day-to-day product operations

Why you can make a difference

You combine deep product management experience with the ability to operate in a technically complex environment. You don't need to be an expert engineer, but you understand enough about architecture, services, and platforms to ask the right questions and make decisions that hold up under expert scrutiny. You're comfortable turning strategy into outcomes, navigating ambiguity, and creating clarity for teams that need to deliver. Your strength? Effortless context-switching: aligning on the roadmap with stakeholders one moment, grooming the backlog with your team the next, followed by detailing the implications of technical options for consumers.

Where you'll be working

You'll join the ShopCore Backend team (~10 engineers), part of the Technical Shop Foundation within the Consumer Journey domain. You'll work closely with the engineering teams building and evolving bol's webshop and app experiences, in a highly technical and impact-driven environment: decisions made here shape how quickly and reliably other teams can build on the platform. The engineers you accelerate serve 13.7 million customers directly, which means every improvement you make unlocks tremendous benefits for the entire organization. Your scope is clear: make the shop foundation better, more scalable, and easier for product teams to build on.