Senior Engineering Manager - Banking at Mercury

, Newfoundland and Labrador, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

25 Dec, 25

Salary

298800.0

Posted On

26 Sep, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Leadership, Technical Excellence, Bank Core Integration, Haskell, TypeScript, Team Coaching, Project Management, Collaboration, System Maintenance, Onboarding, Feedback, Work Environment, Product Development, Predictable Delivery, High-Availability Services

Industry

Financial Services

Description

A busy rail switchyard moves thousands of cards every hour. Trains come in from different lines carrying all kinds of cargo, schedules change constantly, but somehow everything keeps flowing smoothly and safely. Banking* works the same way. At Mercury, we move money instead of freight cars, but the principles are similar. Money comes from everywhere; each transaction has its own set of rules, and we have to keep everything running on schedule so that customers, regulators, and business partners can count on us. The key is building systems that just work. When someone opens an account, it should be straightforward. When they make a payment, it posts when it’s supposed to. When a partner wants to integrate with us, they shouldn’t have to fight our systems to make it happen. Your job as an engineering manager at Mercury is to make our banking core run so smoothly that people barely notice it’s there. In this role, you will Lead a team of 4 to 8 senior engineers to deliver high-availability banking services. Ensure your team can predictably deliver results against company objectives. Create a fulfilling work environment for your team. Coach the team to a high level of technical excellence and stability. Have the confidence and competence to give feedback to engineers of all skill levels. Onboard new engineering hires. Align engineering work with Mercury values. Work alongside other product experts to pick the highest-impact projects. Collaborate with other teams when work overlaps, ideally to achieve a more cohesive product and simpler, more maintainable underlying technical implementation. Balance building new things with maintaining existing systems. Empower your team to thrive and contribute to making Mercury’s product reliable, beautiful, and useful. You should: Have demonstrated the ability to lead a technical team. Have experience integrating with bank core and lending systems. Have a strong individual engineering skill set. You will go through roughly the same interview process as our individual contributors, with additional interviews for manager skills. Be familiar with our tech stack (specifically, Haskell, and TypeScript), or have an interest in learning it. We encourage you to try our demo site if you’re interested in applying for the role. The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity, and benefits. Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers. Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following: US employees (any location): $239,000 - 298,800 Canadian employees (any location): CAD $225,900 - 282,400 *Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group, Column N.A, and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC. Mercury values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Mercury are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role. We use Covey as part of our hiring and / or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT. As part of the evaluation process we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound on January 22, 2024. Please see the independent bias audit report covering our use of Covey here. #LI-ES1

Responsibilities

Lead a team of engineers to deliver high-availability banking services while ensuring predictable results against company objectives. Create a fulfilling work environment and empower the team to contribute to a reliable and useful product.