Senior Technical Recruiter - Engineering at mercury

**Who this is for** This role is for an experienced Senior Technical Recruiter passionate about building exceptional engineering teams within the fintech space.

Work type: remote

Location: San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States

Salary: $163,000 – $183,400/yr

Type: Full-time

Summary

**Who this is for** This role is for an experienced Senior Technical Recruiter passionate about building exceptional engineering teams within the fintech space. If you have a strong track record in full-cycle technical recruiting, excel at proactive sourcing, and enjoy partnering closely with hiring managers to drive impactful hiring outcomes, Mercury wants to hear from you. **Key highlights** You will lead full-cycle recruiting for engineering roles at Mercury, playing a crucial part in shaping the company's future by scaling its engineering talent. This role involves strategic sourcing, market insight, and close collaboration with engineering leadership to attract and hire top technical talent, directly influencing the teams that build Mercury's products. **You might be a good fit if you...** - Have 4+ years of experience as a technical recruiter supporting engineering teams. - Possess strong sourcing skills that go beyond standard LinkedIn Recruiter usage. - Can quickly identify patterns, anticipate problems, and autonomously drive solutions. - Have deep curiosity about products and teams, and a strong understanding of role impact.

Job Description

Mercury is revolutionizing finance for startups by building a complete, user-friendly banking stack. This requires scaling exceptional engineering teams, so we’re looking to add a Technical Recruiter to help shape how we hire and grow. In this role, you’ll lead full-cycle recruiting for engineering roles, using a combination of strategic sourcing, market insight, and strong partnership with hiring managers to build high-impact teams.

Hiring is one of the most important ways we shape Mercury’s future. In this role, you’ll directly influence the teams building our products and the experience of our customers.

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:

Own full-cycle recruiting for engineering roles, from kick-off to close

Build and maintain strong, healthy pipelines across multiple roles simultaneously

Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers, partnering with them to drive the best hiring outcomes for their teams

Source candidates proactively and creatively to engage top technical talent

Develop a deep understanding of Mercury’s products, engineering challenges, and team needs

Use data and pattern recognition to identify bottlenecks, diagnose issues, and unblock hiring processes independently

Partner closely with Engineering leaders to align on role scope, success profiles, and evaluation criteria - and be a consistent voice for quality throughout the process

Mentor and support other recruiters, helping raise the bar for the team

Deliver a candidate experience that's thoughtful and transparent from first touch to final decision

#### You should have:

4+ years of experience as a technical recruiter supporting engineering teams

Experience hiring for AI/ML-related roles

Strong sourcing skills that go beyond LinkedIn Recruiter

Ability to quickly identify patterns, anticipate problems, and autonomously drive solutions

Deep curiosity about the products and teams you support, and a strong understanding of how the roles you hire for drive impact

Strong alignment with Mercury’s values and ability to represent them authentically to candidates

Enjoy building diverse, inclusive, and high-performing teams, and lead with deep empathy, kindness, and care for the work you do

Have a strong sense of urgency and ownership for the work you do, and be willing to help support hiring efforts across other areas of the business, as needed

The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options), 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:

US employees in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $163,000-$183,400

US employees outside of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $146,700-$165,100

Mercury values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Mercury are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.

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