Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mercury is a fintech company that focuses on building intelligent systems for business banking. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the development of core systems for fraud prevention, ensuring a safe and delightful experience for their clients.
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, implementation, and long-term roadmap for core systems which support multiple fraud prevention use cases
- Own the end-to-end delivery of large cross-function projects, translating ambiguous high impact problems into strategy and execution, make pragmatic tradeoffs, and drive teams to measurable outcomes
- Design, build, and operate highly available, low-latency, backend systems that enable real-time scoring and decisioning for fraud prevention
- Partner with Data Science and ML teams to productionize models, build reliable ML data pipelines, and enable real-time model serving
- Establish and elevate department level best practices, review designs, drive engineering quality, and act as a trusted advisor on architectural tradeoffs
- Mentor and grow engineers, documenting learnings and sharing technical direction through writing, 1:1s, and team meetings
- Navigate and influence multiple stakeholders, help align teams, communicate tradeoffs to technical and non-technical partners, and independently resolve cross team issues
Skills
- 7-10+ years of software development experience, with a strong focus on the backend, with a knowledge of or excitement to learn Haskell
- Experience as a technical lead making architectural decisions in the past and seen the impact of those decisions over time
- Ability to clearly articulate technical opinions and lay out tradeoffs
- Passionately product-minded with experience building and shipping new products balancing reliability and velocity
- Comfortable driving discussions in areas with ambiguous ownership, approaching them with empathy, and delighting in getting outcomes
- Ridiculously helpful, taking initiative to make coworkers' lives easier by investing time to mentor and proactively share knowledge and learnings through writings, 1:1s, and team meetings
- Experience in fintech, fraud systems, or the broader risk domain
Benefits
- Base salary
- Equity (stock options)
- Benefits
Company Overview
Mercury provides digital banking and financial tools tailored for startups and modern businesses. It was founded in 2017, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://mercury.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Mercury has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2026, 14 in 2025, 6 in 2024, 8 in 2023, 1 in 2022, 1 in 2021, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.