Engineering Manager - Bank Accounts

Mercury; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercury is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of 4–8 senior engineers building high-availability banking services. You will translate strategy into team objectives and create a predictable delivery system, balancing new features with reliability and long-term maintainability.

You will collaborate with Product, Design, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to make Mercury’s banking products reliable and understandable, while hiring, mentoring, and ensuring responsible AI usage across

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead a technical team.
• Experience building or operating reliable financial or high-integrity systems.
• Comfort working across product, policy, infrastructure, and operations.
• Able to turn ambiguous problems into clear decisions, owners and execution plans.
• Strong technical judgment and deep engagement with system design and implementation.
• Experience developing senior engineers and creating opportunities for engineers to lead.
• Care deeply about correctness, reliability, customer experience and operational excellence.
• Familiarity with Haskell and TypeScript, or eagerness to learn.

Responsibilities

• 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 and maintainability.
• Partner with Product, Design, Risk, Compliance, and Operations for reliable banking products.
• Hire and onboard engineers while maintaining a high-quality interview process.
• Ensure responsible use of AI-assisted development with testing and safeguards.
• Provide clear feedback to engineers and foster growth.

Skills

Leadership

System design

Cross-functional collaboration

Interviewing

Mentoring engineers

Financial systems

AI-assisted development

Operational excellence

Tools

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.

*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 disabil