5 months ago
Base Salary
$167k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve MCP servers connecting internal systems and data sources for agents and engineers.
- Expand and operate LLM gateway infrastructure for routing, rate limiting, cost attribution, and observability.
- Create shared prompt libraries, guardrails, and policy-as-code defaults.
- Maintain structured, reliable, agent-consumable context artifacts and improve knowledge discovery and retrieval.
- Partner with domain teams to standardize and maintain sources of truth.
- Build sandboxes, self-service scaffolding, playgrounds, and evaluation harnesses for safe AI prototyping and iteration.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend development experience in complex production systems.
- Fluency across programming languages with the ability to navigate platform engineering, infrastructure, and developer tooling.
- Hands-on experience building and shipping LLM-powered systems such as RAG pipelines, agents, or evaluation frameworks to production.
- Understanding of AI deployment tradeoffs including cost modeling, observability, latency, and safety.
- Ability to operate independently in loosely defined problem spaces and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences.
Benefits
- Base salary, equity, and benefits are included in the total rewards package.
- The role is open to US employees in any location and Canadian employees in any location.
- Mercury provides reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process.
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About Mercury
Mercury is the fintech ambitious companies use for banking* and all their financial workflows. With a powerful account at the center of their operations, companies can make better financial decisions and ensure that every dollar spent aligns with company priorities. That's why over 300K startups choose Mercury to confidently run all their financial operations with the precision, control, and focus they need to operate at their best. To learn more, visit Mercury.com. *Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.