Senior Software Engineer - Frontend Developer Experience
Job Summary
We are seeking an engineer to strengthen and refine our frontend foundations at Mercury. This role involves building and evolving our React, TypeScript, and Vite infrastructure to support ambitious product work with speed and confidence.
Responsibilities
Strengthen the frontend foundations every Mercury engineer builds on.
Evolve our React, TypeScript, and Vite infrastructure to support teams in shipping ambitious product work with speed and confidence.
Help engineers move efficiently with automation. Use static analysis, local tools, and LLM coding tools to help engineers quickly resolve issues.
Optimize our testing platform for fast feedback loops and high confidence. Provide QA tools for product teams.
Make our CI/CD pipelines stable, ergonomic, and fast. Ensure dozens of deploys to prod per day and hundreds of commits on PR branches are smooth.
Drive decisions by unifying technical metrics from our tools with sentiment metrics from developer surveys. Build observability if needed.
Foster enthusiasm about frontend work at Mercury by making the good path the easy path, and by representing our work in larger venues.
Requirements
6-8+ years of software development experience, with a strong focus on the frontend and deep experience with React and TypeScript.
Experience leading complex engineering projects, such as those that cut across multiple teams and functions, have multi-stage rollouts, or require research and consensus-building before action.
A confident communicator, adept at communicating across organization boundaries, and driving discussions to productive ends.
Maintained internal libraries or platform tooling that other engineers depend on.
Prioritizes being helpful, taking initiative to make other developers' lives easier.
A thorough understanding of modern frontend developer tooling and workflows, including build systems, CI/CD, web hosting, and testing.
Dives into the gnarly side of the web platform—when it matters, happy to dig into Vite internals, upstream a fix, or bring a broken deploy pipeline back to life.
Balances practicality with ideals, pushing the team to reach an ambitious North Star while charting a course there that matches our reality.
Qualifications
Has a thorough understanding of modern frontend developer tooling and workflows, including build systems, CI/CD, web hosting, and testing.
Dives into the gnarly side of the web platform—when it matters, happy to dig into Vite internals, upstream a fix, or bring a broken deploy pipeline back to life.
Balances practicality with ideals, pushing the team to reach an ambitious North Star while charting a course there that matches our reality.
Benefits
Total rewards package includes base salary, equity (stock options), and benefits.
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.
Target new hire base salary ranges for this role are:
US employees (any location): $200,700 - 250,900
Canadian employees (any location): CAD $189,700 - 237,100
Schedule
Full-time position.
Pay
Competitive salary and equity (stock options).
Company Information
Mercy is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC. Mercury values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Mercury are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.