Mercury - Senior Software Engineer
Requirements
• Seven or more years of backend software engineering experience. • Proven experience leading technical projects at scale, including planning, execution, and stakeholder management. • Experience maintaining and improving legacy systems. • Clear and persuasive communication skills — you can articulate tradeoffs and influence decisions across teams, communicating clearly with non-technical stakeholders. • A mindset that balances urgency with craftsmanship: shipping fast, without cutting corners on quality engineering. • Creativity and adaptability — you think beyond the obvious and find solutions that move both product and business forward. • A track record of mentoring engineers and helping teams grow. • If this role interests you, we invite you to explore our public demo at demo.mercury.com. • The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity, and benefits. Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers. • Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following: • US employees: $200,700 - $250,900 • Canadian employees: CAD $189,700 - $237,100
Responsibilities
• Lead Projects End-to-End: Drive technical projects from concept to production. Define solutions, analyze tradeoffs, make critical decisions, and deliver software that works today and is sustainable for tomorrow. • Lead Projects End-to-End: • Collaborate Across Functions: Partner with product, design, and business stakeholders to shape initiatives. Translate between technical and non-technical audiences to ensure clarity, alignment, and buy-in. • Collaborate Across Functions: • Code Craftsmanship: Write clear, testable, and maintainable code. Establish patterns and best practices that your team can follow, ensuring long-term scalability and reliability. • Code Craftsmanship: • Build for Quality & Sustainability: Design extensible systems, make balanced decisions on tech debt, plan careful rollouts, and own the quality of your work through post-launch monitoring. • Build for Quality & Sustainability: • Think Product, Not Just Code: Approach problems with a product mindset. You care as much about the business impact of what you build as the technical design. • Think Product, Not Just Code: • Mentor & Elevate: Coach engineers on your team by sharing patterns, practices, and critical thinking to raise the technical bar and foster a culture of sustainable engineering. • Mentor & Elevate:
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