Engineering Manager - Banking Platform & Reliability

Wwshemi; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 201,000 - 251,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercury is seeking an engineering manager to lead a 4–8 person senior engineering team responsible for high-availability banking services. You will translate strategy into actionable objectives, build a predictable delivery system, and balance reliability with new features.

You will collaborate with Product, Design, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to ensure reliable, understandable banking products. You will hire, onboard, and mentor engineers while upholding responsible AI practices and strong

Qualifications

• 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.

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, 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.

Skills

Team leadership

Systems reliability

Cross-functional collaboration

AI-assisted development

Technical judgment

Mentoring engineers

System design

Haskell

TypeScript

Tools

Haskell

TypeScript

Job description

Mercury is seeking an engineering manager to lead a 4–8 person senior engineering team responsible for high-availability banking services. You will translate strategy into actionable objectives, build a predictable delivery system, and balance reliability with new features.

You will collaborate with Product, Design, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to ensure reliable, understandable banking products. You will hire, onboard, and mentor engineers while upholding responsible AI practices and strong