Head of Engineering - Risk

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

The Risk function at Mercury plays a similar dual role: safeguarding our customers while enabling responsible and compliant expansion of our financial platform. As the Head of Risk Engineering, you will lead a group of engineers and managers dedicated to designing, developing, and scaling systems that underpin Mercury’s approach to fraud detection and regulatory compliance. You’ll work cross-functionally with product managers, designers, data scientists, compliance officers, and other product teams to ensure that Mercury’s risk systems are robust and adaptable to evolving challenges. Mercury stands out by embedding user experience at the heart of its products, ensuring risk systems are as intuitive as they are functional. Mercury is at a pivotal moment of growth, and we need a leader who can blend strategic vision with technical expertise, capable of building and leading a world-class risk engineering team that keeps us safe as we scale.

Requirements

• Experience: 10+ years of engineering experience with at least 2 years in a senior leadership role (e.g., head, director, or senior manager).
• Industry: Ideally within fintech or regulated technology environments.
• Risk and Compliance Expertise: Deep experience in fraud prevention and compliance (KYC/KYB, AML).

Responsibilities

• Strategy Definition: Define and execute a risk engineering strategy: develop plans that align with Mercury’s long-term vision to ensure that our approach to risk supports rapid and compliant growth.
• Team Leadership: Lead a team of talented managers and engineers: foster a culture of excellence, innovation, user-centric design, and collaboration in our engineering team.
• Infrastructure Development: Build and scale risk infrastructure: architect and scale foundational risk systems to support real-time decision-making, effective data management, and advanced fraud prevention.
• Tool Development: Develop self-service tools for internal teams: empower product, compliance, and risk operations teams with extensive and user-friendly risk tooling, enabling independent monitoring and management of risk processes and reducing dependencies for day-to-day operations.
• Compliance Support: Support compliance and regulatory standards: collaborate with legal and compliance experts to keep Mercury a compliance leader in an evolving regulatory climate.
• Data-Driven Risk Management: Champion data-driven risk management: lead initiatives to leverage data and machine learning in fraud detection and compliance, providing Mercury with actionable insights and automated solutions that improve our resilience.

Application Instructions

• Not specified.