Backend Engineering Intern

Summary

Join Mercury's Engineering Internship program and receive mentorship from experienced engineers while contributing to a product used by over 100,000 businesses. As an intern, you will write TypeScript and/or Haskell code, collaborating with data analysts and building features. Backend Engineering Interns will focus on building features, providing backend support for mobile and web frontends, creating admin tools, and integrating with third-party APIs. This paid, full-time, remote summer internship runs for 12-16 weeks between September and December and is open to students currently enrolled in an academic program. The hourly rate is $55 for US-based candidates and CAD 55 for Canadian candidates. Applications close on May 30th, 2025.

Requirements

• Be interested in continually honing their craft
• Have curiosity and be willing to share their perspective
• Appreciate quality in their work and that of others
• Communicate well, and be able to write clear explanations of their reasoning on technical decisions
• Have experience using the Haskell programming language, or a strong desire to learn it, and have some familiarity with SQL

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with data analysts to spec and build features that draw new customers to our product
• Provide a backend to our mobile and web frontends, to do things like search transactions or send wire transfers
• Build admin tools to increase the efficiency of day-to-day support operations, like identifying fraudulent customers or managing accounts
• Integrate with third-party APIs, to do things like send checks or validate SWIFT codes