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 Expertise
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
Experience and Background
The ideal candidate for the role:
- 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)
Company Information
The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options), and benefits.
Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry.
New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.
The target new hire base salary ranges for this role are:
- US employees (any location): $239,000 - $298,800
- Canadian employees (any location): CAD 225,900 - 282,400
*Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.