**Who this is for** This role is for an accomplished Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience in backend development, particularly in building and mai
Work type: remote
Location: San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States
Salary: $200,700 – $250,900/yr
Type: Full-time
**Who this is for** This role is for an accomplished Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience in backend development, particularly in building and maintaining high-reliability, critical financial systems. If you excel at leading projects, possess strong technical judgment, and are passionate about ensuring the security and efficiency of money movement, this is an ideal opportunity. **Key highlights** You will operate at the heart of Mercury's money movement platform, owning the engineering for domestic wire transfers. This involves designing and evolving robust systems, influencing technical strategy, collaborating across product, risk, and banking teams, and mentoring engineers to ensure durable, compliant, and scalable financial operations. **You might be a good fit if you...** - Have seven or more years of backend software engineering experience. - Possess proven experience leading technical projects at scale, including planning and stakeholder management. - Have experience maintaining and improving complex legacy systems. - Can communicate complex technical tradeoffs clearly and influence decisions across diverse teams. - Demonstrate a mindset that balances speed with high-quality engineering and craftsmanship. - Show creativity and adaptability in finding solutions that advance both product and business goals. - Have a track record of mentoring engineers and fostering team growth.
The electrical grid isn’t flashy — but it powers everything. Homes, hospitals, factories, and entire cities depend on infrastructure that is always on, carefully regulated, and engineered for resilience. When it works, no one notices. When it doesn’t, everything stops.
Domestic Wires plays that role at Mercury. We own the engineering behind secure, compliant, and reliable domestic wire transfers — enabling businesses to move significant amounts of capital with precision and trust. The systems we build must balance speed with safety, scale with strict controls, and product flexibility with regulatory requirements.
As a Senior Engineer, you’ll operate at the core of Mercury’s money movement platform. You’ll design and evolve high-reliability systems, influence technical strategy, partner across product, risk, and banking teams, and mentor others as we scale. This is an opportunity to work on infrastructure where durability, clarity, and strong judgment matter as much as raw speed.
Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.What You’ll Do
The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity, and benefits. Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.
Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:
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