Software Engineer, Mercury

• Has 2 or more years of backend development experience on web-based systems
• Is persistent in the face of challenges
• Can balance tradeoffs and find creative solutions to accomplish goals
• Understands the workflows of fellow engineers and is empathetic toward their needs
• Is interested in interactions between systems
• Demonstrates an interest in growing their skillset as an engineer

Desirable

• Write, test, debug, and ship quality code as part of our team initiatives
• Communicate with clarity about your work
• Own your tasks and keep them moving forward
• Work with project leads to understand implementation goals and give feedback on requirements
• Speak with product engineers to understand their use cases
• With direction, find ways to improve systems at Mercury
• The Stability team exists to help product engineers see those patterns of instability and remedy them. We champion and improve observability. We've helped define incident response. We have introduced and support robust background work processing. We monitor and build tooling around platform and database health. And with your help, we will explore how to make Mercury even more reliable