Engineering Manager - Banking Platform & Reliable Systems

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

Job summary

Mercury is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of 4 to 8 senior engineers, delivering high-availability banking services and moving money between accounts. You will translate product direction into clear objectives, build a predictable delivery, and partner across product, policy, infrastructure, and operations to improve reliability and user experience.

This role is pivotal as Mercury opens its own bank and scales its core systems, requiring strong technical judgment and a focus on

Qualifications

• Lead a technical team to deliver high-availability banking services.
• Experience building or operating reliable financial systems.
• Translate product direction into clear team objectives.
• Comfortable working across product, policy, infrastructure.
• Strong technical judgment with system design focus.
• Mentor senior engineers and create leadership opportunities.
• Care about reliability, customer experience, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 4 to 8 senior engineers to deliver high-availability banking services.
• Translate company and product direction into measurable team objectives.
• Build a predictable delivery system with visible progress, risks, and tradeoffs.
• Balance customer-facing improvements with platform reliability and maintainability.
• Partner with Product, Design, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to improve Mercury's banking products.
• Hire and onboard engineers while maintaining a rigorous interview process.
• Provide clear, useful feedback to engineers at every level.

Skills

Leadership

System design

Reliability engineering

AI-assisted development

Cross-functional collaboration

Haskell

TypeScript

Tools

Haskell

TypeScript

Job description

Mercury is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of 4 to 8 senior engineers, delivering high-availability banking services and moving money between accounts. You will translate product direction into clear objectives, build a predictable delivery, and partner across product, policy, infrastructure, and operations to improve reliability and user experience.

This role is pivotal as Mercury opens its own bank and scales its core systems, requiring strong technical judgment and a focus on