Staff Software Engineer - Fraud

Mercury
San Francisco, New York
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 239,000 - 298,800 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 7-10 yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Mentorship","Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving"]

Senior backend-focused software engineering role leading the architecture and delivery of real-time fraud prevention systems. You will drive cross-functional initiatives, partner with data science and ML teams to productionize models, mentor engineers, and set architectural direction, while balancing reliability and velocity in a fintech risk domain.

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Mercury
5 months ago

Staff Software Engineer - Fraud

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Job Summary

Senior backend-focused software engineering role leading the architecture and delivery of real-time fraud prevention systems. You will drive cross-functional initiatives, partner with data science and ML teams to productionize models, mentor engineers, and set architectural direction, while balancing reliability and velocity in a fintech risk domain.
Location: San Francisco, New York
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead the architecture, implementation, and long-term roadmap for core systems which support multiple fraud prevention use cases.
  • •Own the end-to-end delivery of large cross-function projects, translating ambiguous high impact problems into strategy and execution, make pragmatic tradeoffs, and drive teams to measurable outcomes.
  • •Design, build, and operate highly available, low-latency, backend systems that enable real-time scoring and decisioning for fraud prevention.
  • •Partner with Data Science and ML teams to productionize models, build reliable ML data pipelines, and enable real-time model serving.
  • •Mentor and grow engineers, documenting learnings and sharing technical direction through writing, 1:1s, and team meetings

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 239,000 - 298,800 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Has 7-10+ years of software development experience with a strong backend focus, and is excited to learn Haskell.
Experience:7-10 yearsFintechRiskFraudSaaS
Skills:LeadershipMentorshipCommunicationCollaborationProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:HaskellBackendReal-timeMLData pipelines

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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