Staff Technical Program Manager (Reliability and Quality) - Remote

Company Description

At PayNearMe, we’re on a mission to make paying and getting paid as simple as possible. We build innovative technology that transforms the way businesses and their customers experience payments. Our industry-leading platform, PayXM™, is the first of its kind—designed to manage the entire payment experience from start to finish. Every click, swipe or tap is seamless, fast and secure, helping non-commerce businesses boost customer satisfaction, accelerate payments, and reduce costs.

Our single platform handles it all: cards, ACH, digital wallets such as PayPal, Venmo, Cash App Pay, Apple Pay and Google Pay, and even cash at more than 62,000 retail locations nationwide. Today, thousands of businesses across consumer lending, iGaming and online sports betting, property management, and tolling trust PayNearMe to deliver a payment experience that drives real results.

In September 2025, we raised a $50 million Series E funding round to accelerate our growth. 

We’re a team of 200+ employees across 41 states, headquartered in Silicon Valley with satellite offices in Dallas, TX and Holmdel, NJ.

Join us and be part of a team that’s shaping the future of payments—one experience at a time.

Job Description

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.

Qualifications

• 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.
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