Senior Backend Engineer - Product

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer

Description: At Mercury, we are committed to crafting an exceptional banking experience for startups. Our team is passionately focused on ensuring our product not only meets but anticipates the needs of our customers. Our product engineering group is growing and we’re looking to hire senior backend engineers. We’re a team of pragmatic, product-minded engineers motivated by the desire to create lovable products that rescue our customers from frustrating, expensive legacy industry tools. As part of this role, you will:

• Feel a strong sense of product ownership and actively seek responsibility – we often self-organize on small/medium projects, and we want someone excited to help shape and build Mercury’s future.
• Work in an autonomous environment on a close-knit team, with a “startup within a startup” feel.
• Partner closely with designers and product leaders to ship lovable experiences. We want to transcend the status quo for banking and fintech software, and many of our customers are startups and appreciate our slick, magical designs.
• Join a team of experienced product engineers within one of our Mercury product groups such as Banking, Experiences, Expansion, or Risk.

Requirements

• Experience: 3-7 years of backend development experience.
• Technical Skills:
  • Knowledge of or excitement to learn Haskell.
  • Proficiency in SQL.
• Soft Skills:
  • Empathizes with users and can channel their perspective to build lovable products.
  • Has made architectural decisions in the past and measured the impact of those decisions over time. You should be able to clearly articulate your technical opinions and lay out tradeoffs.
  • Communicates and collaborates effectively with peers and cross-functional counterparts.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and development of scalable and reliable backend systems.
• Work collaboratively with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver high-quality software.
• Take ownership of features and contribute to the overall architecture of the product.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to maintaining a high standard of code quality.
• Continuously learn and improve your skills and knowledge.

Application Instructions

• Explore our public demo at demo.mercury.com.

Company Information

• Company: Mercury
• Rewards Package: Base salary, equity (stock options), and benefits.
• Salary Range:
  • US employees (any location): $166,600 - $208,300
  • Canadian employees (any location): CAD 157,400 - 196,800

Note: New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.