Senior Engineering Manager - Backend Developer User Experience

Summary

Join Mercury's Backend Developer User Experience team as a Senior Engineering Manager, leading a team of talented engineers in building a developer ecosystem that prioritizes speed, quality, and enjoyment for Mercury's 200+ engineers. You will be responsible for instrumenting the SDLC, adopting a product-centric approach to improve backend engineer effectiveness, guiding the organization through solution adoption, cultivating a positive team culture, and collaborating with other teams on long-term vision. The ideal candidate possesses a passion for enabling engineers, is data-driven, comfortable with ambiguity, and has experience managing developer tooling and software engineering teams. Mercury offers a competitive total rewards package including base salary, equity, and benefits. The role requires managing a developer tooling team, 4+ years of software engineering team management experience, and 3+ years of software engineering experience.

Requirements

• You have previous experience managing a developer tooling and/or building products for developers
• You have 4+ years managing software engineering teams (experience leading remote-first distributed teams is a plus)
• You have 3+ years experience as a software engineer (Haskell/functional language experience a plus)

Responsibilities

• Instrumenting the SDLC, ensuring we have effective quantitative and qualitative ways of understanding our engineers’ speed, quality, and enjoyment of their work
• Adopting and evangelizing a product-centric approach to improving the effectiveness of our backend engineers through the introducing of novel tools and methodologies
• Guiding the organization through adoption of solutions, and championing their integration across Mercury’s broader engineering team, and graceful sunsetting of legacy solutions we wish to move past
• Cultivating a trusting, psychologically safe, and challenging culture on your team
• Working with other Infrastructure, Stability, and Developer Experience leaders, Product Management, and other stakeholder teams on setting the long term vision for and defining what the software development journey looks like at Mercury

Preferred Qualifications

• You possess a passion for enabling other engineers, and you feel a great sense of reward as your team’s investments improve engineering velocity and enjoyment
• You’re always eager to challenge your own and your team’s assumptions, creating data-backed cases for investments and strategic shifts
• You’re receptive towards both positive and critical feedback from users, ensuring customer insights drive our decisions as we find new ways to improve engineering speed of iteration and overall experience
• You enjoy navigating and owning ambiguous problem domains, and have a set of tools that have served you well in creating a strategy and effectively communicating your plan to others to get buy-in and create alignment
• You’re comfortable getting your hands dirty as a developer, and are familiar with the experience of using a suite of modern supportive tools as well as the pain and frustration when developer friction impedes your progress

Benefits

• Base salary
• Equity