Senior Release Engineer, Mercury
$166.6-208.3k
Canadian annual salary: CAD 157,400 - 196,800. + Stock Options
Banking services for startups and small businesses
Job no longer available
Banking services for startups and small businesses
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$166.6-208.3k
Canadian annual salary: CAD 157,400 - 196,800. + Stock Options
1001+ 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
- Experience with deploying and managing large mono-repo codebases
- Proven success in navigating the complexities of a large engineering organization (500+ engineers) while keeping things running smoothly
- Familiarity modern build systems (like Buck2, Bazel, or others), and bonus points if you’ve worked with Nix
- Experience with modern CI/CD systems (such as GitHub Actions, BuildKite, CircleCI) that allow for continuous, frequent releases across the entire company
- Strong communication skills that help align teams across the company, ensuring smooth and collaborative release cycles
- Experience with or an eagerness to learn Haskell, as our core monolith is built on it
What the job involves
- At Mercury, we’re committed to making our software delivery process as seamless and powerful as the products we build
- We believe that exceptional engineering is built on a foundation of smooth and efficient deployments, and we’re looking for someone who’s passionate about crafting that experience for our teams and our users
- Own the end-to-end release process for our large, mono-repo codebase, ensuring deployments happen without a hitch, every single time
- Implement flexible release and rollback strategies that can accommodate the needs of various teams and projects, from frontend to backend, ensuring seamless coordination and minimal disruption
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and refine release processes that allow for rapid, frequent releases, making sure that each team can ship confidently and frequently
- Work with a variety of build tools like Buck2, Vite, and Nix to optimize build performance and ensure fast, reliable pipelines
- Lead the development of CI/CD processes that support a high-frequency release cadence, ensuring smooth integrations and continuous delivery across the entire organization
- Use your strong communication skills to coordinate across teams, ensuring smooth, collaborative releases that delight everyone involved
- Work with a team that’s passionate about making releases smooth and scalable
- Own a key part of the engineering pipeline and see your work’s impact on our product’s evolution
- Collaborate with brilliant engineers, solving complex challenges while keeping things simple
- Thrive in an environment where the pace is fast, the problems are challenging, and the outcomes are magical
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 200,000 businesses and achieved a $3.5B valuation as of 2025. As a rising unicorn in the stagnant world of startup banking, mercury is backed by substantial funding and 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)
- Annual $1K learning & development budget
- Paid 6-week sabbatical after the 5-year mark
- Weekly $100 food budget
- Monthly $100 wellness budget
- Monthly $50 cellphone reimbursement
- Pet-friendly offices with free tea and beverages, plus lunch and snacks
- Unlimited vacation policy (with a mandatory minimum)
- Retirement matching up to 4% of base salary (401K/RRSP)
- Inclusive fertility, hormonal health, and family-forming benefits through Carrot Fertility
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jason Zhang
(Co-Founder & COO)Jason graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology before spending over 4 years at Heyzap in Business Development.
Immad Akhund
(Co-Founder & CEO)Immad graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Masters in Computer Science. He then worked as a Software Developer at Aquila and Bloomberg. He also founded Clickpass and Heyzap, and was a Part-time Partner at Y Combinator.
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