Engineering Manager – Bank Accounts

Mercury; United States; Remote; USD 201,000 - 251,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercury is building its banking core to support accounts at scale. As Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of 4–8 senior engineers to deliver high-availability banking services and translate product direction into measurable objectives.

You will balance improvements with platform reliability and work with Product, Design, Risk, Compliance and Operations to make Mercury’s products reliable and useful. You’ll hire, onboard, and coach engineers while maintaining a strong interview process.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a technical team.
• Experience building or operating reliable financial systems.
• Ability to translate ambiguous problems into clear decisions and plans.
• Strong technical judgment in system design.
• Experience developing senior engineers.
• Familiar with Haskell or TypeScript, or willingness to learn.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 4-8 senior engineers to deliver high-availability banking services.
• Translate company and product direction into clear, measurable team objectives.
• Build a predictable delivery system with visibility into progress, risks, and tradeoffs.
• Balance customer-facing improvements with platform reliability and maintainability.
• Partner with Product, Design, Risk, Compliance and Operations to ensure reliable, usable products.
• Hire and onboard engineers while maintaining a high-quality interview process.
• Ensure responsible, tested AI-assisted development with safeguards.
• Provide clear feedback to engineers at all levels.
• Create an environment where engineers can grow technically and as leaders.

Skills

Technical leadership

Financial systems

Reliability engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

System design

Mentoring engineers

Haskell

TypeScript

Job description

Roman aqueducts quietly carried water across cities and made daily life possible. Their value was not in the structures themselves, but in everything they enabled.

The Bank Accounts team plays a similar role at Mercury. We build the foundation for depository accounts*: managing money held in Mercury accounts and helping customers move money between accounts they own.

The work ahead is especially exciting: as Mercury is opening its own bank, this team will build a major part of the foundation needed to manage customer accounts at that scale. The systems and capabilities we build will support how customers open, use, manage, and move money between their accounts.

Your job as an engineering manager at Mercury is to make our banking* core run so smoothly that people barely notice it’s there.

In this role, you will:

• Lead a team of 4 to 8 senior engineers to deliver high-availability banking services.
• Translate company and product direction into clear, measurable team objectives.
• Build a predictable delivery system that makes progress, risks, and tradeoffs visible.
• Balance customer-facing improvements with platform reliability, operational readiness, and long-term maintainability.
• Partner with Product, Design, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to make Mercury’s banking products reliable, understandable, and useful.
• Hire and onboard engineers while maintaining a consistent, high-quality interview process.
• Hold the team accountable for using AI-assisted development responsibly, with appropriate testing, evaluation, review, and production safeguards.
• Give clear, useful feedback to engineers at every level.
• Create an environment where engineers can do their best work and grow their technical and leadership skills.

You should:

• Have demonstrated the ability to lead a technical team.
• Have experience building or operating reliable financial, banking, payments, or other high-integrity systems.
• Be comfortable working across product, policy, infrastructure, and operational boundaries.
• Be able to turn ambiguous problems into clear decisions, owners, and execution plans.
• Have strong technical judgment and the ability to engage deeply with system design and implementation.
• Have experience developing senior engineers and creating opportunities for engineers to lead.
• Care deeply about correctness, reliability, customer experience, and operational excellence.
• Be familiar with our tech stack (specifically, Haskell and TypeScript), or have an interest in learning it.

We encourage you to try our demo site if you’re interested in applying for the role.

*Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.

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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Total Rewards

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

$200,700—$250,900 USD

Canadian employees (any location):

$189,700—$237,100 CAD