Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mercury is a fintech company that focuses on secure and reliable money movement systems. They are seeking a seasoned engineering leader to guide the Domestic Wires & RTP team, overseeing backend and full-stack engineers while ensuring high technical quality and alignment with company goals.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of 7+ backend and full-stack engineers
- Hire, mentor, and retain high-performing engineers across experience levels
- Help shape the organization structure as the payment rails group scales
- Coach emerging leaders within the group
- Drive predictable execution against company and product goals
- Foster a healthy, engaging, and high-performing team environment
- Uphold a high bar for technical quality, reliability, and system stability
- Align engineering work with Mercury’s values and long-term strategy
- Partner closely with product and design to identify and prioritize high-impact work
- Collaborate across teams to build cohesive products and simpler, more maintainable systems
- Balance new development with ongoing maintenance and operational excellence
Skills
- Has 5+ years of experience managing software engineering teams at multiple organizations (experience leading remote-first, distributed teams is a plus)
- Has been hired as an external manager previously and knows how to gain domain knowledge to have positive impact quickly
- Experience operating in high-responsibility/high-impact domains
- Comfortable with ambiguity and growing scope
- Track record of leading through cross-functional and cross-team coordination
- Brings strong technical judgment and credibility: you'll interview at a similar technical depth as senior ICs
- Is familiar with our tech stack (especially Haskell), or excited to learn it
- Has experience in finance, fintech, or banking systems (payments experience is a plus)
Benefits
- The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options), and benefits.
- Equity (stock options)
- Benefits
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