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Mercor

Payments Engineer

Mercor
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about 1 month ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior

Base Salary

$100k - $500k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Automate payout orchestration to eliminate manual processes.
  • Build a real operational ledger that is immutable and auditable.
  • Design settlement ingestion and reconciliation pipelines.
  • Improve observability across payout, processor, and bank flows.
  • Identify and eliminate recurring payment bugs at the root cause.
  • Reduce manual treasury overhead and abstract processor dependencies.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in building scalable backend systems, preferably in payments or fintech.
  • 3+ years of backend/platform engineering experience with ownership of production systems.
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate with third-party payment gateways and banking APIs.
  • Understanding of financial regulations, including PCI-DSS compliance.
  • 3+ years of experience with transactional databases like MySQL or PostgreSQL.
  • Proficiency in compiled languages such as Go, Rust, or C++.
  • Experience with message queues or streaming platforms like RabbitMQ or Kafka.
  • Proven ability to manage production systems under significant load.

Benefits

  • Generous equity grant vested over 4 years.
  • $10K housing bonus for living within 0.5 miles of the office.
  • $1.5K monthly stipend for meals.
  • Free Equinox membership.
  • Health insurance.