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PayNearMe

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2009

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $50M Series E - PayNearMe on 2025-09

Fintech • SaaS • B2B

PayNearMe is a payments technology company that provides a modern, end-to-end platform for businesses to accept, disburse and manage payments. The platform emphasizes Payment Experience Management, offering features such as modern payment processing, automation and self-service, exception management, and a cash-at-retail network. PayNearMe targets business customers across industries (auto & consumer lending, tolling, iGaming, buy-here-pay-here dealers, credit unions, mortgage servicing, law firms, etc. ) and advertises metrics including 16+ years in operation, $50B+ processed annually, 16,000+ businesses on its platform, and 62,000+ cash-at-retail locations. Money transmission services are provided by its subsidiaries PayNearMe MT, Inc. and PayNearMe Financial, Inc.

📋 Description

• Define and lead the technical approach for modernizing software quality across our engineering organization, evolving from QA-as-gatekeeper toward a shared ownership model • Assess our current QA processes, test automation, manual testing practices, release validation, and tooling, then develop a practical roadmap for reaching successive levels of maturity • Propose and implement tooling, workflows and practices for building quality into the agentic SDLC • Establish a long-term vision for quality management that reduces handoffs and allows development pods to operate with autonomy • Partner closely with proddev leadership, SGRC, QA, and performance testing teams to align quality management practices with business risk, regulatory needs, and delivery goals • Define, track, and report the metrics that will shape decisions, such as coverage and defect escape rates • Define a modern test pyramid with clear definitions, ownership, and goals for unit, integration, contract, end-to-end, exploratory, and production validation layers, along with specialized considerations such as performance and security • Improve the reliability, speed, maintainability, and signal quality of our automated test suites; guide appropriate use of existing tools while identifying opportunities to improve, replace, or supplement them • Develop strategies for test data management (seed, synthetic, and production-like sets), environment reliability, contract testing, service virtualization, synthetic monitoring, and automated smoke testing • Identify opportunities to leverage agentic AI in test generation & scenario discovery, and design workflows and skills for multi-agent analysis of generated code • Design quality gates that are risk-based, automated where possible, and integrated into CI/CD pipelines • Improve sandbox and production smoke testing so that post-deploy validation becomes faster, more automated, and more reliable, supporting a fast-rollback strategy when needed • Collaborate with teams to define what “ready to release” means for different types of changes, services, and risk profiles • Provide technical mentorship to QA engineers, software engineers, and engineering leads. • Teach modern quality engineering practices through pairing, workshops, documentation, architecture reviews, and hands-on examples. • Build buy-in and drive change across teams by showing practical improvements rather than imposing abstract process changes. • Help cultivate a culture where quality is owned broadly by engineering, supported by QA expertise, and embedded throughout the delivery lifecycle. • Approach change with empathy, especially for team members whose current roles and responsibilities will evolve.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in a software development organization, ideally with a significant emphasis on quality management. Our current stack includes Ruby and Go codebases, and direct experience with one of these (preferably both) is a significant benefit. • Significant experience with agentic software development workflows, skill development, prompt engineering, and supporting tools • Proficiency with Git and branch management workflows (trunk-based, git-flow, etc); hands-on experience with GitLab for CI/CD strongly preferred • Excellent communication skills; ability to build consensus and influence across teams, considering multiple perspectives and developing solutions that balance them effectively • Commitment to data-driven decision making — able to develop and test hypotheses effectively, continually adjusting strategy as a result of new information; defining, tracking, and reporting on clear KPIs/OKRs • Experience leading transformational projects and managing change well, ideally in sensitive, high-complexity environments with significant compliance or regulatory obligations.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits with growth-company options grant • 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