Senior Backend Engineer, Mercury
Spend Management
$173.6-204.2k
Base salary range - Canadian employees (any location): 158,000 - 185,800 + Equity (stock options)
Banking services for startups
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Banking services for startups
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$173.6-204.2k
Base salary range - Canadian employees (any location): 158,000 - 185,800 + Equity (stock options)
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
- Has 4+ years of software development experience, with a knowledge of or excitement to learn Haskell
- Has made architectural decisions in the past and measured the impact of those decisions over time. You should be able to clearly articulate your technical opinions and lay out tradeoffs
- Is passionately customer and product minded and has experience building, shipping, and iterating on new products
- Is someone comfortable driving discussions in areas with ambiguous ownership, approaches them with empathy, and delights in getting outcomes. Our work touches many other teams and areas of the product; you’ll have a lot of autonomy and the expectation is you’ll use that to seek out ways to have an impact
- Is ridiculously helpful and doesn’t mind crossing team boundaries to improve the product experience and reduce tech debt
What the job involves
- The Spend Management team is building products and platforms that redefine how companies implement processes and strategies to track, control, and optimize their spending
- We’re a team of full-stack engineers motivated by the desire to create a lovable and intuitive product experience that brings a sigh of relief to our customers who are frustrated by existing complex and fragmented spend management solutions
- Work closely with designers and product leaders to ship lovable experiences that solve complex financial workflows. We want to transcend the status quo for banking and fintech software and we do that by giving engineers a seat at the table
- Take complex concepts and workflows and boil them down to core challenges our customers face to come up with innovative solutions
- Feel a strong sense of product ownership and actively seek responsibility – we want someone excited to help shape and build Mercury’s future
- Join a small-but-mighty team of experienced product engineers creating Mercury’s brand-new Spend Management platform
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.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
50% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2021
$120m
SERIES B
Sep 2019
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $150.9m
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 values
- Think actively: Question processes. Give thoughtful feedback. Find the best way to do something instead of going by how it’s always been done
- Be super helpful: Practice intentionality and accountability. Go above and beyond to solve problems, and do it as a team
- Act with humility: Treat everyone with respect. Leave egos at the door
- Appreciate quality: Work with the best equipment. Avoid cutting corners. Take pride in crafting a lasting product
- Maximize efficiency: Minimize unnecessary meetings and bureaucracy. Work together to get the job done right
- Focus on product: Ask yourself how the product can be better today than it was yesterday
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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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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