Lead Engineering Manager, Banking Core Systems

Mercury; 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 the banking core as Mercury opens its own bank. You will translate product direction into team objectives and establish a predictable delivery system that highlights progress, risks, and tradeoffs.

You will balance customer-facing improvements with platform reliability, operational readiness, and long-term maintainability while partnering with Product, Design, Risk, Compliance, and Operations

Qualifications

• Experience leading a technical team of senior engineers.
• Experience building or operating high-integrity financial systems.
• Ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear decisions.
• Familiar with cross-functional collaboration with product, policy, infrastructure.

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

System design

Reliability engineering

Mentoring engineers

Hiring & interviews

Tools

Haskell

TypeScript

Job description

Mercury is seeking an engineering manager to lead a 4-8 person senior engineering team responsible for the banking core as Mercury opens its own bank. You will translate product direction into team objectives and establish a predictable delivery system that highlights progress, risks, and tradeoffs.

You will balance customer-facing improvements with platform reliability, operational readiness, and long-term maintainability while partnering with Product, Design, Risk, Compliance, and Operations