Mercury - Senior Engineering Manager

• Lead teams (4–8 engineers each) responsible for account onboarding, KYC/KYB, AML, and fraud detection decisioning and workflows, and operational tooling. • Partner with Product, Risk, and Data teams to design and deliver scalable systems that balance user experience with compliance rigor. • Shape the next generation of our KYC and risk platforms—reliable, resilient, and easy to extend as regulations and business needs evolve. • Create a strong culture of operational excellence, with measurable improvements to uptime, accuracy, and system quality. • Build, mentor, and grow engineering talent; help managers and senior engineers level up technically and organizationally. • Drive clarity amid complexity: translating between regulatory nuance and technical execution. • Foster collaboration across teams to align on priorities, simplify interfaces, and make the whole system more maintainable and elegant. • You should have: • You should have: • 9+ years of software development experience, including 3–5+ years of engineering management in a high-scale tech environment. • AI/ML expertise—you’ve built and launched applied AI products (from LLMs to traditional ML models), shipping them from 0→1 and scaling 1→10 in production environments. • Proven success building large-scale backend distributed systems, ideally involving integrations and decision automation. • Experience with or curiosity about KYC, AML, risk, or compliance systems in financial services or fintech. • A track record of raising the bar for quality and reliability, balancing shipping speed with technical excellence. • Strong communication and leadership skills—you can inspire engineers, partner across functions, and adapt your management style to the moment. • The ability to hire, retain, and develop exceptional technical talent. • A pragmatic builder’s mindset: you believe beautiful systems are those that work, adapt, and last. • 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 (any location): $239,000 - $298,800 • Canadian employees (any location): CAD $225,900 - $282,400