Senior Engineering Manager – Domestic Wires & Real-time Payments

Lead Team

Lead a team of 7+ backend and full-stack engineers

Hire, mentor, and retain high-performing engineers across experience levels

Help shape the organization structure as the payment rails group scales

Coach emerging leaders within the group

Drive predictable execution against company and product goals

Foster a healthy, engaging, and high-performing team environment

Technical Leadership

Uphold a high bar for technical quality, reliability, and system stability

Align engineering work with Mercury’s values and long-term strategy

Partner closely with product and design to identify and prioritize high-impact work

Collaborate across teams to build cohesive products and simpler, more maintainable systems

Balance new development with ongoing maintenance and operational excellence

Requirements

Has 5+ years of experience managing software engineering teams at multiple organizations

(Experience leading remote-first, distributed teams is a plus)

Has been hired as an external manager previously and knows how to gain domain knowledge to have positive impact quickly

Experience operating in high-responsibility/high-impact domains

Comfortable with ambiguity and growing scope

Track record of leading through cross-functional and cross-team coordination

Brings strong technical judgment and credibility: you’ll interview at a similar technical depth as senior ICs

Is familiar with our tech stack (especially Haskell), or excited to learn it

Has experience in finance, fintech, or banking* systems (payments experience is a plus)