6 months ago
Base Salary
$239k - $299k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, implementation, and long-term roadmap for core systems supporting multiple fraud prevention use cases.
- Own end-to-end delivery of large cross-functional projects and drive them to measurable outcomes.
- Design, build, and operate highly available, low-latency backend systems for real-time fraud scoring and decisioning.
- Partner with Data Science and ML teams to productionize models, build reliable ML data pipelines, and enable real-time model serving.
- Establish department-level engineering best practices, review designs, and advise on architectural tradeoffs.
- Mentor and grow engineers while sharing technical direction and documented learnings.
- Influence stakeholders, align teams, communicate tradeoffs, and independently resolve cross-team issues.
Requirements
- 7–10+ years of software development experience with a strong backend focus.
- Knowledge of Haskell or enthusiasm to learn it.
- Prior experience as a technical lead making architectural decisions and evaluating their long-term impact.
- Experience building and shipping new products while balancing reliability and velocity.
- Ability to lead ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives, communicate technical tradeoffs, and operate autonomously.
- Experience in fintech, fraud systems, or the broader risk domain is a strong plus.
Benefits
- Base salary, equity through stock options, and benefits are included in Mercury’s total rewards package.
- US employees may work from any location; Canadian employees may work from any location.
- Mercury provides reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process.
Tech Stack
Haskell
Categories
About Mercury
Mercury builds a fintech platform for startups and growing businesses to run banking and financial workflows, including business accounts, payments, corporate and debit cards, bill pay, and treasury. It is a non-bank company with banking services provided by partner banks (Choice Financial Group and Column N.A.) and earns revenue from interchange and financial services fees. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held.