Senior Backend Engineer - Product

Summary

Join Mercury, a financial technology company focused on providing exceptional banking experiences for startups, as a Senior Backend Engineer. This role involves working in a close-knit team, taking ownership of projects, and collaborating with designers and product leaders. You will build lovable products that solve customer problems and help shape Mercury's future. The ideal candidate has 3-7 years of backend development experience, proficiency in SQL, and knowledge of Haskell. The position offers a competitive salary and equity, along with benefits.

Requirements

• Has 3-7 years of backend development experience
• Knowledge of or excitement to learn Haskell, and proficiency in SQL
• 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

• 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

Benefits

• 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 (any location): $166,600 - $208,300Canadian employees (any location): CAD 157,400 - 196,800