Senior Backend Engineer - Product

Mercury
San Francisco, New York
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 166,600 - 208,300 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 3-7 yearsSkills: ["Product ownership","Autonomy","Collaboration","Architectural decision-making","User empathy"]

Design and build backend services for a fintech platform focused on delivering an exceptional banking experience for startups. Join a product engineering group such as Banking, Experiences, Expansion, or Risk, working on small-to-medium projects with strong product ownership in an autonomous, close-knit team. Partner with designers and product leaders to ship delightful experiences, make thoughtful architecture decisions, and use AI tools to accelerate development and improve quality.

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Mercury
Mercury
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Senior Backend Engineer - Product

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Job Summary

Design and build backend services for a fintech platform focused on delivering an exceptional banking experience for startups. Join a product engineering group such as Banking, Experiences, Expansion, or Risk, working on small-to-medium projects with strong product ownership in an autonomous, close-knit team. Partner with designers and product leaders to ship delightful experiences, make thoughtful architecture decisions, and use AI tools to accelerate development and improve quality.
Location: San Francisco, New York
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Take strong product ownership and help shape and build Mercury’s future on small-to-medium projects.
  • •Work autonomously on a close-knit team with a “startup within a startup” feel.
  • •Partner with designers and product leaders to ship lovable experiences for banking and fintech customers.
  • •Join one of Mercury’s product engineering groups such as Banking, Experiences, Expansion, or Risk.
  • •Communicate effectively with peers and cross-functional counterparts while leveraging AI tools to improve engineering outcomes.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 166,600 - 208,300 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •3-7 years of backend development experience.
  • •Knowledge of or excitement to learn Haskell, with proficiency in SQL.
  • •Experience making architectural decisions and measuring their impact over time, with ability to explain tradeoffs.
  • •Ability to empathize with users and translate perspective into building lovable products.
  • •Experience using AI tools in your workflow to accelerate development, improve code quality, or solve hard problems.
Experience:3-7 yearsFintechSaaS
Skills:Product ownershipAutonomyCollaborationArchitectural decision-makingUser empathy
Languages:English
Tech Stack:HaskellSQLAI

Company Brief

Mercury
Provides banking and financial infrastructure for startups and small businesses, offering business checking accounts, payments, debit cards, venture debt integrations, and treasury services via a developer-friendly platform.
Industry: Fintech Infrastructure
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2017
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