Senior Engineering Manager, Mercury
Backend Developer User Experience
$239-298.8k
+ Equity. For Canadian applicants salary ranges are: CAD $225,900 - 282,400
Banking services for startups
Be an early applicant
Banking services for startups
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$239-298.8k
+ Equity. For Canadian applicants salary ranges are: CAD $225,900 - 282,400
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make scaling tech companies simpler with a personalized banking stack for startups, and power the next generation of companies that will shape the American industry.
Role
Who you are
- You possess a passion for enabling other engineers, and you feel a great sense of reward as your team’s investments improve engineering velocity and enjoyment
- You’re always eager to challenge your own and your team’s assumptions, creating data-backed cases for investments and strategic shifts
- You’re receptive towards both positive and critical feedback from users, ensuring customer insights drive our decisions as we find new ways to improve engineering speed of iteration and overall experience
- You enjoy navigating and owning ambiguous problem domains, and have a set of tools that have served you well in creating a strategy and effectively communicating your plan to others to get buy-in and create alignment
- You’re comfortable getting your hands dirty as a developer, and are familiar with the experience of using a suite of modern supportive tools as well as the pain and frustration when developer friction impedes your progress
- You have previous experience managing a developer tooling and/or building products for developers
- You have 4+ years managing software engineering teams (experience leading remote-first distributed teams is a plus)
- You have 3+ years experience as a software engineer (Haskell/functional language experience a plus)
What the job involves
- At Mercury, our Developer User Experience (DUX) Teams fill the role of enablers, via education, tooling, and frameworks that support those building the product
- Mercury is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our Backend Developer User Experience team
- As the Senior Engineering Manager for Backend DUX, you'll lead a team of incredibly talented engineers in creating a developer ecosystem which delivers speed, quality, and enjoyment for Mercury's 200+ engineers
- Mercury's primary backend language is Haskell, and your team is comprised of industry recognized thought leaders in that community
- You'll report to the Director of Stability, Infrastructure, and Developer UX, work alongside other platform teams whose overarching mission is to achieve startup-like developer effectiveness at scale
- You'll be instrumenting the SDLC, ensuring we have effective quantitative and qualitative ways of understanding our engineers’ speed, quality, and enjoyment of their work
- Adopting and evangelizing a product-centric approach to improving the effectiveness of our backend engineers through the introducing of novel tools and methodologies
- Guiding the organization through adoption of solutions, and championing their integration across Mercury’s broader engineering team, and graceful sunsetting of legacy solutions we wish to move past
- Cultivating a trusting, psychologically safe, and challenging culture on your team
- Working with other Infrastructure, Stability, and Developer Experience leaders, Product Management, and other stakeholder teams on setting the long term vision for and defining what the software development journey looks like at Mercury
Our take
Frustrated by the archaic, fee-laden banking services offered to entrepreneurs, the founders of Mercury set out to create a better solution. They envisioned a platform that was dynamic, tech-driven, and free from unnecessary fees.
Mercury delivers on this vision by automating business payment processes, offering FDIC-insured accounts, and providing full API access, empowering entrepreneurs with greater control and efficiency. This approach stands in stark contrast to traditional startup banking, which often burdens young businesses with high fees and limited functionality.
By prioritizing user experience and offering a free service tier, Mercury has attracted over 100,000 businesses and achieved a $1B valuation in 2021. As a rising unicorn in the stagnant world of startup banking, mercury is poised for continued growth, constantly adding new features and expanding its team to further disrupt the industry.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
50% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2025
$300m
SERIES C
Jul 2021
$120m
SERIES B
Total funding: $450.9m
Company benefits
- Health, dental, & vision
- 12+ weeks of paid parental leave
- $600 USD custom WFH equipment setup
- Unlimited vacation policy (with a mandatory minimum)
- Retirement matching up to 4% of base salary (401k/RRSP)
- Paid 6-week sabbatical after the 5-year mark
- Annual $1K USD learning & development budget
- Unlimited book budget
- Weekly $100 USD food budget
- Monthly $100 USD wellness budget
- Monthly $50 USD cellphone reimbursement
- Pet-friendly offices with free tea & lunch
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jason Zhang
(COO)Studied Biology at Stanford before spending over 4 years at Heyzap in Business Development.
Immad Akhund
(CEO)Graduated from the University of Cambridge, then worked as a Software Developer at Aquila and Bloomberg. Also founded Clickpass and Heyzap, and was a Part-time Partner at Y Combinator.
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