Senior Software Engineer, Mercury
Risk Intelligence
$203.1-238.9k
Canadian employees (any location): CAD 184,800 - 217,400 + Equity (stock options) in all locations
Banking services for startups
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Banking services for startups
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$203.1-238.9k
Canadian employees (any location): CAD 184,800 - 217,400 + Equity (stock options) in all locations
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 experience designing and building large data systems, pipelines, and ETL systems. Event-driven design experience is a plus
- Has at least 7 years of development experience, with excitement to learn and work with Haskell, React, and TypeScript. Comfort coming up to speed quickly on programming languages, libraries, and mature code bases is essential
- Is passionately product minded and has experience building and shipping new products
- Empathizes with users and can channel their perspective to build lovable products
- Can balance tradeoffs and find creative solutions to accomplish goals
- Communicates and collaborates effectively with peers and cross functional counterparts
What the job involves
- Mercury has a quickly growing digital footprint, with a variety of teams, problems, and information that needs connecting
- Just as Roman roads connected and empowered the region, the Risk Intelligence team works to connect diverse technical teams, enabling informed decisions and driving success across the fraud, risk, and compliance spaces
- In this position you will lead the design and development of sophisticated data systems tailored to ensure regulatory compliance and detect potential fraud on the platform
- As an engineer experienced in modern data architecture you will help mentor and teach the team best practices for technical design
- You will help us understand data technologies, both new and mature, and how to wield them properly
- You will bring a set of opinions forged in the experience of crafting similar works and let your curiosity and love of learning guide you carefully forward
- Join a compassionate team of experienced Haskell engineers
- Feel a strong sense of ownership and actively seek responsibility – we often self-organize on small/medium projects, and we want someone who’s excited to help shape and build Mercury’s future
- Design, build, and evolve a burgeoning feature platform system
- Carefully maintain and grow our existing products and data solutions
- Carefully direct data domain modeling, (re)designing tables and doing deep query optimizations
- Work independently, asynchronously, and remotely. Developing habits and principles to help uphold this style of team operation
- Work closely with product engineers, data analysts, data scientists and product leaders to ship lovable and scalable experiences
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
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Insights
Some 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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