Mercury - Engineering Manager - Bank Accounts

• 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. • We encourage you to try our demo site if you’re interested in applying for the role. • Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.