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Staff Technical Program Manager (Reliability and Quality) - Remote

PayNearMe develops technology to drive better payment experiences for businesses and their customers, offering a modern platform for accepting, disbursing, and managing payments efficiently across various channels, including cash.

PayNearMe

Employee count: 201-500

Salary: 190k-220k USD

United States only

We're looking for an experienced, technical Staff-level Technical Program Manager (TPM) to lead our Quality and Reliability efforts across critical systems and services. This is a high-impact, individual contributor role for someone who has done this before, who can build structure where needed, navigate ambiguity, and drive outcomes across multiple teams and domains.

You’ll be responsible for leading cross-functional programs to improve system reliability, scalability, and operational quality, from improving incident response and production readiness to redefining the ways we test and deploy software. This is not a generalist role: we’re looking for a TPM with deep technical fluency and a track record of shaping system-level quality and delivery culture at scale.

What You’ll Do

  • Own the Quality & Reliability Program: Define and drive the vision for quality—across proactive practices (testing, deployment, observability), reactive processes (incident response, external communications), and cultural expectations (quality ownership, readiness).
  • Lead Cross-Functional Programs: Drive reliability and quality initiatives across Engineering, Product, Operations, and Customer Success.
  • Production Readiness: Own the Production Readiness Review (PRR) process; ensure all releases meet reliability standards before they go live.
  • Define and Drive SLOs: Establish and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs). Build visibility into reliability metrics and lead efforts to meet or exceed targets.
  • Improve Incident Management: Streamline incident response and postmortems. Drive structural improvements in tooling, communication, and ownership.
  • Scale Tooling & Automation: Collaborate across teams to enhance observability, alerting, testing automation, and response tooling.
  • Mitigate System Risk: Identify risk vectors early, build mitigation plans, and drive resolution with urgency.
  • Drive Alignment: Influence across Eng, Product, Ops, and GTM teams to prioritize reliability and integrate quality into every initiative.
  • Track Progress: Use tools like Atlas, Jira, and internal dashboards to maintain clarity on goals, risks, and outcomes.
  • Embed Continuous Learning: Build programs that ensure we learn from every incident, test edge cases, and continuously harden our systems.
  • 8+ years of program management experience, with at least 3 years in technical, reliability, or quality-focused domains.
  • Strong understanding of system architecture, distributed systems, and reliability engineering principles.
  • Familiarity with SDLC models, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, observability, and incident management tooling.
  • Demonstrated success defining and improving SLOs, SLIs, and production readiness processes.
  • Proven ability to lead large-scale, cross-functional programs across Engineering, Product, Operations, and Customer Success.
  • Skilled at translating complex technical goals into clear, actionable, and measurable outcomes.
  • Experienced in using Atlassian tools (e.g., Jira, Atlas) for program tracking, reporting, and executive communication.
  • Adept at navigating ambiguity, building alignment, and driving decision-making without formal authority.
  • Comfortable balancing technical depth with business priorities to influence outcomes.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Bonus: Experience in regulated or high-availability industries such as fintech, healthcare, or infrastructure.

Benefits

  • Base salary per year (paid semi-monthly)
  • Fast- paced and professional work culture
  • Stock options with standard startup vesting - 1 year cliff; 4 years total
  • $50 monthly communication expense stipend to go towards your phone/internet bill
  • $250 stipend to enhance your WFH setup
  • Reimbursement for peripheral equipment: monitor (up to $400), keyboard and mouse (up to $200)
  • Premium medical benefits including vision and dental (100% coverage for employees)
  • Company-sponsored life and disability insurance
  • Paid parental bonding leave
  • Paid sick leave, jury duty, bereavement
  • 401k plan
  • Flexible Time Off (our team members typically take off ~3-4 weeks per year)
  • Volunteer Time Off
  • 13 scheduled holidays
  • 2x / year in-person team meet-ups

Salary Range: $190,000 - 220,000

PayNearMe strives to create a workplace where all employees thrive. Our core values represent who we are today and we take pride in the way we work with each other as well as with our stakeholders.

We’re in this together to do the right thing. We deliver real results we are proud of while remaining respectful, transparent, and flexible.

PayNearMe is an equal opportunity employer. We are diligently and thoughtfully working towards cultivating a diverse workforce which in turn, enhances our products and services for the communities we serve. Applicants who represent all backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

Candidate information will be treated in accordance with our job applicant privacy notice found at: https://home.paynearme.com/ccpa-privacy-notice-jobs-employees/

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All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

PayNearMe develops technology to facilitate the end-to-end customer payment experience, making it easy for businesses to accept, disburse and manage payments. Our modern and reliable platform lowers the total cost of payments by increasing acceptance rates, driving self-service and simplifying exceptions. We future-proof our clients’ payments roadmap by including all payment types and channels through a single contract and integration.

With PayNearMe, businesses can transform the outdated systems holding them back from achieving progress.

PayNearMe has over 200 employees, raised a $45M Series D round in June 2023, and processes billions in payments annually. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, our team is distributed across the U.S. Join us in solving our clients’ biggest payment challenges.

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At PayNearMe, we are revolutionizing the payments landscape through groundbreaking technology designed to facilitate seamless and secure transactions for businesses and their customers. Founded in 2009 with the initial vision of enabling cash payments in an increasingly digital world, our platform has evolved into a comprehensive solution that manages the end-to-end payment experience. We empower thousands of innovative companies across the United States by providing a single, modern, and reliable platform that supports a multitude of payment types, including cards, ACH, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, Venmo, and our proprietary electronic cash network spanning over 62,000 retail locations.

Our commitment to innovation drives us to continuously enhance our offerings, ensuring our clients can increase customer engagement, improve operational efficiency, and reduce the total cost of payment acceptance. PayNearMe's technology is built to be flexible and configurable, allowing businesses to tailor payment workflows to their specific needs without requiring complex workarounds or expensive custom development. We leverage insightful data analytics to help our partners understand payment trends and optimize their processes. Through strategic partnerships and a relentless focus on solving the most pressing payment challenges, PayNearMe is dedicated to future-proofing our clients' payment roadmaps and delivering exceptional experiences that drive real results and foster progress in the financial technology sector. Our robust infrastructure, adherence to the highest security and compliance standards (including SOC1, SOC2, and PCI-DSS Level 1), and innovative features like Smart Switch™ for processing redundancy, underscore our dedication to reliability and trust in every transaction.

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