Mercury's Bank Accounts team needs to build and maintain dependable, secure, and scalable depository account systems that form the essential foundation for the entire platform, ensuring reliability and supporting business growth.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading technical projects at scale, including planning, execution, and stakeholder management.
- Strong full-stack engineering skills, with deep knowledge of modern web development practices, API design, and system design.
- Clear and persuasive communication skills — you can articulate tradeoffs and influence decisions across teams.
- A mindset that balances urgency with craftsmanship: shipping fast, without cutting corners on quality engineering.
- Creativity and adaptability — you think beyond the obvious and find solutions that move both product and business forward.
- A track record of mentoring engineers and helping teams grow.
Responsibilities
- Drive technical projects from concept to production.
- Define solutions, analyze tradeoffs, make critical decisions, and deliver software that works today and is sustainable for tomorrow.
- Write clear, testable, and maintainable code.
- Establish patterns and best practices that your team can follow, ensuring long-term scalability and reliability.
- Design extensible systems, make balanced decisions on tech debt, plan careful rollouts, and own the quality of your work through post-launch monitoring.
- Approach problems with a product mindset.
- Coach engineers on your team by sharing patterns, practices, and critical thinking to raise the technical bar and foster a culture of sustainable engineering.
Other
- Collaborate Across Functions: Partner with product, design, and business stakeholders to shape initiatives.
- Translate between technical and non-technical audiences to ensure clarity, alignment, and buy-in.
- Think Product, Not Just Code: You care as much about the business impact of what you build as the technical design.
- Mentor & Elevate: Coach engineers on your team by sharing patterns, practices, and critical thinking to raise the technical bar and foster a culture of sustainable engineering.
- 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.
