Payrails is a global payment software company helping leading enterprises to take control of their payment operations and maximize performance. With deep experience in the payments space and firsthand knowledge of merchants' challenges, we’ve seen how fragmented, complex, and inefficient these systems can become. Now, we are setting a new industry standard for how enterprises around the world manage and optimize payments, with more control, visibility and flexibility than ever before.
Our vision is to reimagine payments from the ground up. We are building a deeply integrated meta layer that spans the entire payment lifecycle with a modular architecture. This helps us give leading brands building blocks to craft solutions to most complex operational challenges, tailor seamless customer experiences and grow their business.
We are backed by some of the world’s top investors including Andreessen Horowitz, HV Capital, EQT Ventures and General Catalyst, who share our mission to simplify payment complexity globally.
At Payrails, we’re committed to building a team of exceptional people - not just talented, but driven to build, solve, and deliver at the highest level. Excellence isn’t just a value here; it’s a way of working. We believe that great people thrive in environments where there’s trust, clarity, and shared purpose. We work openly and collaboratively, with deep respect for each other’s craft. Everyone is encouraged to understand the bigger picture - what we’re building, why it matters, and what stands in the way. When people have that context, they move faster, take ownership, and make better decisions. We care about creating a culture where people feel inspired to do their best work and a deep sense of responsibility to help us bring our vision to life. Success at Payrails means staying focused on the problems that matter most, and executing with purpose.
Your team
Payrails is a dynamic workplace and our product team sits at the core of this landscape. Our mission is to drive a successful intersection between User Experience, Technology and Business. We do this by focusing on 3 main pillars:
Continuously studying our customers and the problems they are facing
Making sure we build a product that is feasible and best-in-class
Ensuring our product-market fit is always top of mind
Our Product team offers you the opportunity to work alongside a group of highly ambitious and knowledgeable Product Managers, while being faced with highly complex problems that affect customers on a global scale.
How you will make an impactAs a Senior Technical Program Manager at Payrails, you will drive cross-functional initiatives, foster collaboration, and ensure seamless execution. By building trust-based relationships, you'll navigate challenges, manage risks, and deliver complex payment integrations that bring Payrails' vision to life.
You’ll work closely with engineers, product managers, account managers, external partners, data, and fellow TPMs to conceptualize cross-functional initiatives with layers of dependencies, and plan their execution.
You’ll organize and align multiple stakeholders to drive timely execution
You’ll set accountability through communication of progress transparency and visibility on the next set of actions and milestones
You’ll manage resource allocation and risks to optimize delivery
You’ll identify opportunities for optimization and evolve the existing processes, practices and frameworks that help promote collaboration, transparency and ways of working
You’ll evolve existing tools and dashboards that provide insight to the health scorecard to the organization, especially around delivery to commitment, pace and quality
You’ll continuously look for opportunities for optimizing pace and quality
You have a bachelor degree in Computer Science / Engineering or related field.
You have experience of 7+ years as a TPM or Engineering Manager in a fast-paced engineering organization'
You have strong communication skills with the ability to communicate complex information in a clear and concise manner, bringing the audience along
You have a strong technical aptitude and ability to understand technical challenges and risks
Experience in payments is a plus
You have a background of fundamental engineering concepts including SSDLC, testing methodologies, API monitoring metrics and SLAs
You have the ability to work across multiple teams and cross-organisation stakeholder management
You’re a passionate problem solver who adapts their approach and experience to evolving environments
High impact and high velocity environment with the most talented and ambitious people you will ever work with
A chance to shape the story of a company and a category from the ground up
Real ownership. You’ll have the freedom and trust to build, test, and take lead
A product used by the best brands around the world
Regular team events, activities and off-sites
Competitive salary
Premium Family Medical Insurance Coverage
27 days of annual paid vacation
Top Skills
What We Do
Payrails is a global payment software company helping leading enterprises to take control of their payment operations and maximize performance. Payrails’ all-in-one platform spans the entire payment lifecycle with a modular architecture that includes payment orchestration, payouts, tokenization, unified analytics, automated reconciliation, and in-person payments, all powered by advanced data capabilities. Founded in Berlin in 2021, Payrails has raised over $52 million from the world’s top investors including Andreessen Horowitz, HV Capital, EQT Ventures and General Catalyst.








